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Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Virginia Commonwealth University and Richmond VA Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA. His book on the history of ophthalmology can be found here: <a target="" data-router-slot="disabled" href="https://kugler.pub/editors/christopher-t-leffler/" title="kugler.pub" type="external">https://kugler.pub/editors/christopher-t-leffler/</a>
January 9, 2024
Another entry in our sub-series on one-eyed warriors. This month – how ace US test pilot Chuck Yeager almost lost an eye
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February 7, 2024
The first documented planned primary cataract extraction by Jacques Daviel in 1750
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March 11, 2024
The History of Glaucoma, Part 1: “Glaucoma” before the invention of the ophthalmoscope
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April 4, 2024
The History of Glaucoma, Part 2: Paradigm shifts since the development of the ophthalmoscope
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May 20, 2024
Aspiration of cataract in Philadelphia in 1815
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June 13, 2024
Did an American hoax initiate the era of strabismus surgery?
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June 27, 2024
“Chevalier” John Taylor – Charlatan or successful oculist of his time?
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September 26, 2024
What can congenital cataract surgeries from the 18th century teach us today?
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October 28, 2024
Two myths about crystalline lens anatomy: one medieval and one modern
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November 22, 2024
Harold Ridley and the first intraocular lens
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