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THEODORE J. DIMITRY, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1940;23(5):926-929.

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From early times ocular massage has been recognized as producing a favorable effect on diseases of the eye. Grecian records show such a procedure to have been practiced among that people, and Paul of Aegina, the last of the eclectics, commented on its curative value. Massage of the eyes seems not to have originated with the intellectuals, for the savages of Africa and America used it intuitively.

Pagenstecher¹ in 1871 published a monograph on massage of the eyes, at which time he reported having obtained "magnificent results" by massage even when other agents failed. Donders¹ in 1872 recited his accomplishments with ocular massage before the International Congress of Ophthalmology at London. Heiberg¹ in 1874, Just,² Pedraglia³ in 1880 and Damalix⁴ in 1881 particularized special disease benefited by massage.

Hoffmann⁵ is credited by Domec⁶ with being the first to design an instrument for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Director, Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

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