title: [Comments on a hitherto unknown ophthalmological monograph by Jacob Rüff (ca 1500-1558)].
abstract: Jacob Rüff challenges the representatives of academic medicine in a hitherto unknown and incomplete latin manuscript to oppose the decline in ophthalmology. This manuscript is the rough draft of an ophthalmological text-book of early modern times, never published but written at least 25 years before Bartisch's "Augentrost". It comprises traditional knowledge, the author's own discoveries, 85 prescriptions and 50 pen-and-ink drawings showing the anatomy of the eye and ophthalmo-surgical instruments.
mesh_terms: D049669:History, 16th Century; D008373:Manuscripts as Topic; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Uber eine bisher unbekannte ophthalmologische Monographie von Jakob Rüff (um 1500-1558).