[The glaucoma theory of CF Heerfordt].
Based on numerous microscopical slides from two eyes from two patients suffering from "inflammatory" glaucoma Christian Frederik Heerfordt (1871-1953) put forward his very original theory in 1910-14: Some cases of intractable glaucoma are caused by occlusion of one (or two) vortex veins, sometimes with a flap, a sino- scleral plate into the sinus ( ampulla). Surgical treatment could be iridectomy in the sector with the occlusion, or perhaps better by blood- letting of the occluded vortex- vein. Heerfordts theory was damned by the Danish Ophthalmological Society as un-scientific and the messages in the danish newspapers un- etical. The consequences for science and for Heerfordt personally are discussed.
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Medicinsk Museion, Kobenhavns Universitet.
D003718:Denmark; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans