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Published on: August 25, 2021
[Illustration Techniques in Ophthalmic Textbooks 200 Years Ago - a Platform for the Rostock Glass Eye Collection of
Daniel Schubert1, Günter Niemeyer2, Rudolf F Guthoff3
1Arbeitsbereich Geschichte der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin Rostock.
Abstract:
Very recent research results have demonstrated that the "Rostock Artificial Eye Collection" - assembled 150 years ago with 132 glass modelled exhibits of anterior segment pathologies - is mainly based on the figures of the Atlas of Ophthalmology published by Antoine Pierre Demours in 1818. This article focusses on the analyses of the imaging techniques of this atlas. Present knowledge implies that the author used different colour etching concepts which were partially re-coloured individually. In the opinion of contemporaries, the figures of Demours' atlas represent the climax of scientific imaging techniques. In the academic literature, it is still described as a "recent remarkable masterpiece", even 100 years later.
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