Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1967

RICHARD LIEBREICH (1830-1917) Atlas of ophthalmoscopy. Germer Baillière 1870 2nd ed., enl. & rev. vii, 31 pp., 12 col. plates (1 fold.). 35.3 cm.

Liebreich, a native of Königsberg, studied medicine in the city of his birth as well as at Berlin and Halle. He was an assistant to Helmholtz (see No. 1886 ff.) in 1851 when Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope and served as assistant in Gräfe's (see No. 1931) clinic from 1854 to 1862. Liebreich also practiced ophthalmology in Paris and was ophthalmic surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital in London. As a result of his clinical service at Gräfe's clinic, Liebreich gained valuable experience with the ophthalmoscope and prepared this first atlas of the fundus. The brilliantly colored chromolithographs were made from drawings prepared by Liebreich. He had used them in his lectures and demonstrations for ten years before publishing them at the urging of his colleagues. They were first published at Berlin in 1863 with a French and German text. The work was translated into English by Sir Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1843-1913), the Irish ophthalmologist.

See Related Record(s): 1886 1931

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5892 (1st German ed., 1863); Waller 5802 (1st ed.)