[Adam Bednarski (1869-1941)--professor of ophthalmology in Lviv].
Adam Bednarski (1869-1941). Prominent Polish ophthalmologist, a student of professor Wiktor Bolesław Wicherkiewicz. A professor and the head of the department of ophthalmology in Lviv. The author of about 50 works in ophthalmology and the history of medicine, published in Polish, German, and French. He prepared the first study of the history of Polish ophthalmology from the 13th to the18th century. He also studied the history of the use of herbs in medicine; on the basis of the old herbaria he described the herbal treatment and remedies in the 16th and 17th centuries. He also described the origin and the development of eyeglasses. He published several papers on intraocular foreign bodies and their removal. He described the case of gyrate atrophy of the choroid and the retina, which was one of the first such descriptions in the world. He also wrote several works on the vascular pathologies of the retina, pathologies of the lens and the orbit, neuroophtalmology and children's blindness Adam Bednarski, Medical University in Lvov, history of ophthalmology.
Oddział Okulistyczny Wielospecjalistycznego Szpitala Miejskiego w Poznaniu. ae.grzybowski@gmail.com
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