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Name
  
Louis Wecker


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Died
  
January 24, 1906, Paris, France

Louis de Wecker (29 September 1832 – 24 January 1906) was a French ophthalmologist born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

He studied medicine in Würzburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, earning doctorates from Würzburg (1855) and Paris (1861). From 1862 he maintained a popular ophthalmology clinic in Paris.

In 1867 he performed an enucleation of the eye of Léon Gambetta. His name is associated with "de Wecker scissors", which are small sharp-pointed scissors used for intraocular surgery of the iris and lens capsule.

Selected writings

  • Traité des maladies du fond de l'oeil et Atlas d'ophthalmoscopie, 1870 with Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal; (Treatise on maladies of the fundus of the eye and an atlas of ophthalmoscopy).
  • De l'iridotomie, 1873 (Iridotomy).
  • Échelle métrique pour mesurer l'acuité visuelle, 1877 (Metric scale to measure visual acuity).
  • Traité complet d'ophthalmologie, with Edmond Landolt (Comprehensive treatise of ophthalmology).
  • "Ocular therapeutics"; translated into English in 1879.
  • Traité theorique et pratique des maladies des yeux (Theoretical and practical treatise on maladies of the eye).
  • Ophtalmoscopie clinique, 1881 (Clinical ophthalmoscopy).

    • References

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