Exercises and Historical Exhibit at the St. Paul Meeting of the American Medical Association, June, 1901, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Invention of the Ophthalmoscope. . . .
I.—The History of the Invention and the Development of the Ophthalmoscope. By HARRY FRIEDENWALD, of Baltimore, Md.
II.—The Life of Hermann von Helmholtz. By CASEY A. WOOD, of Chicago, Ill.
An interesting portion of the latter address was the reading of a letter from Prof. HERMAN KNAPP in which he gave personal reminiscences of Helmholtz.
In a hall adjoining the place of meeting of the Ophthalmic Section the writer had arranged an historical exhibit of ophthalmoscopes and of ophthalmoscopic literature. The exhibit included many old and very rare instruments.
The original instrument of Helmholtz (1851) was shown in five models, one of which had the additional interest of having been in the possession of Albrecht . . . [Full Text of this Article]
