Charles Usher
Charles Howard Usher (* 1865 in Edinburgh ; † 1942 ) was a Scottish ophthalmologist and is the namesake of Usher syndrome , a hereditary blind deafness.
Charles Usher was born in Edinburgh in 1865, the fourth child of a large family. He completed his medical studies at the University of Cambridge and St. Thomas's Hospital in London , which he successfully completed in 1891. He then worked in Edinburgh as a surgeon for the ophthalmologist Edward Nettleship, who was known at the time, and as an ophthalmologist at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children until his retirement in 1926.
Encouraged by Nettleship, Charles Usher studied, among other things, eye diseases in the Scottish Highlands . In 1914 he published a study on retinitis pigmentosa . In it he noted that 19 of the 69 affected patients had some degree of hearing loss. Years later he presented the results of this study again in the Bowman lecture of the Society of British Ophthalmologists, without, however, mentioning this connection again. Subsequently, the name "Usher" was used as an eponym for syndromes with retinitis pigmentosa and hearing loss .
literature
- Obituary to Charles Usher. In: Br. J. Ophthalmol. 26 (5). 1942, 235-238. PMC 1143412 (free full text)
- Peter Beighton & Gretha Beighton: The Man Behind the Syndrome. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1986.
credentials
- ↑ CH Usher: On the inheritance of retinitis pigmentosa with notes of cases. Roy.Lond.Ophthalmol.Hosp.Rep. 1914; 19: 130-236
- ↑ CH Usher: Bowman lecture: On a few hereditary eye affection. Trans Ophthlamol Soc UK 1935; 55: 164
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| SURNAME | Usher, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Usher, Charles Howard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |