title: [Centennial of the Basle Eye Hospital and its founder Heinrich Schiess].
abstract: 100 years ago Dr. Heinrich Schiess has founded with private means through his personal initiative the eye clinic of Basle. In the same year this clinic become the University Eye Hospital by subsidising from the State. The development of the clinic since 1864 in the past 100 years in discussed. At the same time the life of Dr. Heinrich Schiess, since 1876 Professor of Ophthalmology at the Medical Faculty of Basle, is described. Especially mentioned are his contacts with Albrecht v. Graefe in Berlin and in Heiden.
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000266:history*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Zum 100jährigen Jubliäum des Basler Augenspitals und zu seinem Gründer Heinrich Schiess.