title: [The history of glaucoma (author's transl)].
abstract: In the clinical history of chronic open angle glaucoma one can distinguish four periods concerning the pathogenetic theories. These are: 1. the nervous and vascular theory, 2. the mechanical theory, 3. the mixed theory and 4. the biochemical, enzymatic and molecular theory, which in the future will become more and more important.
mesh_terms: D001082:Aqueous Humor / Q000502:physiology; D005123:Eye / Q000098:blood supply / Q000201:enzymology; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000150:complications; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Die Geschichte des Glaukoms.