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12 entries match Ophthalmology & Vision [C11] · Genetics & Heredity [K01.900.300]

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1777 CE

#5832

An account of persons who could not distinguish colours.

HUDDART, Joseph (1741 – 1816)

First reliable record of color blindness. Written in the form of a letter to Joseph Priestley, who communicated it to the Royal Society. Huddart was a British hydrographer, engineer and inventor.

1891 CE

#5937

Colour-blindness and colour-perception.

EDRIDGE-GREEN, Frederick William (1863 – 1953)

Includes (p. 262 et seq.) description of Edridge-Green’s lantern test for color-blindness. This was officially adopted in Great Britain in 1915 in place of the Holmgren test.

1941 CE

#5507

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.

GREGG, Sir Norman McAlister (1892 – 1966)

Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.

1798 CE

#5834

Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours.

DALTON, John (1766 – 1844)

First scientific description of color-blindness, or “Daltonism”. Dalton himself suffered from red–green blindness. His paper was read to the Society in 1794.

1958 CE

#7401

L’Hérédité en ophtalmologie.

FRANÇOIS, Jules (1907 – 1984)

English translation St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1961.

1959 CE

#7402

Les cataractes congénitales.

FRANÇOIS, Jules (1907 – 1984)

1874 CE

#5911

Om den medfödda, färgblindhetens diagnostic och teori.

HOLMGREN, Alarik Frithiof (1831 – 1897)

Holmgren introduced the wool-skein test for the diagnosis of color-blindness.

1876 CE–1877 CE

#5916

Om färgblindheten i dess förhallande till jernvägstrafiken och sjöväsendet.

HOLMGREN, Alarik Frithiof (1831 – 1897)

A serious railway accident in Sweden in 1875 was believed by Holmgren to be due to color-blindness, and resulted in the above important paper dealing with the condition and its relation to railway and maritime traffic…

1879 CE

#5917

On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.

THOMSON, William (1833 – 1907)

Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this …

1880 CE–1881 CE

#5918

Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.

TAY, Waren (1843 – 1927)

Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).

1868 CE

#4056.1