[Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) and his single ophthalmologic publication]

Carl Gustav Carus is the most important personality in medicine in Dresden in the first half of the 19th century. He is well known for his manifold activity as a doctor, scientist and philosopher as well as a landscape painter of the romantic period. His literary output is estimated at about 25,000 printed pages. There is just one paper which touches ophthalmology and teratology: in 1842, Carus described the monstrous head of a pig with cyclopia. The discussion follows an idealistic line with comparative anatomical studies in fauna and flora.