Georg Bartisch: Ophthalmodouleia, der Augendienst, 1583. A treatise on service of the eyes and a review of the chapter on strabismus.
In 1583, Georg Bartisch, oculist and cutter for bladder stones at the court of Duke August I of Saxony, published at his own expense a 273 page textbook of ophthalmology. It contained 91 wood cuts and, in the present volume, they are presented in brilliant colour as they were in the original books prepared for presentation. The book was one of the first medical treatises to be published in the German vernacular instead of traditional Latin. It has been translated into English and published in gothic type to simulate the original. Treatment of diseases of the eye by medicines or surgery are reported in great detail. It gives an account of ophthalmology at the time of the early Renaissance when enlightenment was beginning to overtake the darkness of the Middle Ages.
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