Edward Nettleship

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Edward Nettleship (born March 3, 1845 in Kettering , Northamptonshire , † October 30, 1913 in Hindhead , Surrey ) was an English ophthalmologist .

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Edward Nettleship was born on March 3, 1845 as the son of a lawyer in Kettering, where he also attended the Kettering High School until 1860. Since he was to become a farmer, he studied first at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester , then at the Royal Veterinary College in London. In 1867 he graduated with a diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS). In addition to veterinary medicine , he also studied human medicine at King's College London and in 1868 acquired membership of the Royal College of Surgeons.

After completing his medical studies, Nettleship was assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson at the Royal London Hospital and colleague of Warren Tay (1843-1927) at Moorfields Eye Hospital . In 1877 he met the German ophthalmologist Julius Hirschberg in London. A scientific correspondence developed between the two doctors that lasted until Nettleship's death.

From 1878 to 1896 Nettleship worked as an eye surgeon and lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital in London. There he worked, among other things, as a mentor to Charles Howard Usher (1865–1942). He also ran a private practice until 1902. From 1895 to 1897 Nettleship was first chairman of the British Society for Ophthalmology and in 1896 chairman of the ophthalmological section of the British medical community. In 1903 the Nettleship Medal of the Society for Ophthalmology was created in his honor. In 1912 he was elected a member of the Royal Society .

Nettleship died on October 30, 1913 of complications from rectal cancer in his country estate at Longdown Hollow in Hindhead, Surrey.

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Nettleship has published over a hundred scientific articles in the field of ophthalmology, which have appeared in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports and the Transactions of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom , among others . He wrote the successful textbook for ophthalmology The student's guide to diseases of the eye , which came out in 1879 and has been reprinted several times.

Nettleship is particularly known for his work in the field of hereditary eye diseases. He made important contributions to the study of ocular albinism , retinopathia pigmentosa and hereditary night blindness . Before he specialized in ophthalmology, studied Nettleship veterinary and dermatology , in the latter field he described in 1869 for the first time the disease also known as Nettleship syndrome called urticaria pigmentosa , a rare form of disseminated mastocytosis .

According to him, also is Ocular albinism type 1 as Nettleship-Falls syndrome named.

literature

  • Julius Hirschberg: History of Ophthalmology. Volume 4, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1977, ISBN 3487064650 , pp. 240-242.
  • J. Pagel (Ed.): Nettleship, Edward in Biographical Lexicon of Outstanding Doctors. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1901, p. 1200.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julius Hirschberg: History of Ophthalmology P. 240.
  2. ↑ Julius Hirschberg: History of Ophthalmology P. 242.
  3. ^ Entry on Nettleship; Edward (1845-1913) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  4. ↑ a b Julius Hirschberg: History of Ophthalmology P. 241.
personal data
SURNAME Nettleship, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettering , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1913
Place of death Hindhead , Surrey