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Radiation and Cataracts
Cause or Cure?
John W. Gittinger, Jr, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:112-116.
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INTRODUCTION
David Glendinning Cogan, MD, founded the American Ophthalmic History
Society to encourage the study of ophthalmic history. This society met for
the first time on March 18 and 19, 1988, at the National Library of Medicine.
Cogan hosted an annual gathering until his death in 1993, and the group has
continued as the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society. Twenty-five members and
13 guests attended the 1999 meeting in Montreal, Quebec.
THE SNYDER LECTURE
In 1991, Cogan inaugurated the Snyder Lecture to honor Charles L. Snyder,
who for many years was the librarian at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Snyder's interest in ophthalmic history had led to the publication of a series
of essays as the "Our Ophthalmic Heritage" section of the ARCHIVES while Cogan
was its editor. Many of Snyder's essays were collected in book form in 1967.1
Frederick Blodi, MD, delivered the first Snyder Lecture. Subsequent
lecturers . . . [Full Text of this Article]
WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN, PhD (1845-1923)
THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847-1931)
THE WILLIAMS FAMILY
WILLIAM HERBERT ROLLINS, DMD, MD (1852-1929)
DAVID G. COGAN, MD (1908-1993)
FREDERICK CARL CORDES, MD (1892-1965)
From the Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine,
Boston, Mass.
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