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PAUL TOWER, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1961;65(6):792-797.

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After the invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 there followed a flood of ophthalmoscopic literature, disclosing the tremendous interest aroused by the instrument. How many seemingly unrelated and obscure problems might now be open to a new approach? Only time would tell. It was inevitable that all discoveries and interpretations inspired by the ophthalmoscope would in due time be assembled into a single comprehensive illustrated publication. The year 1863 brought that book—the first Atlas of Ophthalmology, by Richard Liebreich—a timely volume on a rapidly expanding subject. Since then, many treatises on ophthalmoscopy have appeared, in fact more than a hundred of them, dealing solely with the examination and diagnostic evaluation of fundus changes,¹ but the credit for the first systematic compilation goes to Richard Liebreich.

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Richard Liebreich (Fig. 1) was born in Königsberg on June 30, 1830. He studied medicine at the university of his native city . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Los Angeles

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 26, 1961.

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