title: Dawbeney Turbervile, MD (1612-1696).
abstract: The year 2012 marks the quatercentenary of the birth of Dawbeney Turbervile,MD(1612-1696), one-time Royalist soldier and later ophthalmologist to England’s Princess Anne, the diarist Samuel Pepys, the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and the astronomer Walter Pope. Turbervile is remarkable for many reasons: He specialized at a time when generalization was prized; though he was a qualified physician, he also practiced the trade of surgery. Furthermore, he provided in his communications with the Royal Society early descriptions of achromatopsia, ocular foreign body removal with a magnet, and tic doloreaux. He is a forebear worth remembering
authors.affiliation: Sydney Eye Hospital, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. mps23@cantab.net
authors.forename: Matthew P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Simunovic
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history*; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history*