William Evans Bruner

William Evans Bruner (also William E. Bruner , born January 8, 1866 in Columbia , Lancaster County , Pennsylvania , † September 3, 1964 in Cleveland , Cuyahoga County , Ohio ) was an American ophthalmologist .

Life

Family and education

William Evans Bruner, son of the timber merchant Abram Bruner and his wife Sarah Jane Breneman, graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle from Borough Columbia in Lancaster County , Pennsylvania . He then devoted himself to the study of medicine at the Wesleyan University in Middletown in the state of Connecticut and the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , in 1888 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts , 1891 with honors those of a Master of Arts at Wesleyan University, in 1891 his doctorate to Doctor of Medicine (MD) at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his subsequent training as a specialist in ophthalmology from Dr. George Edmund de Schweinitz at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and Jefferson Medical College.

William Evans Bruner married Lydia Clark, who died in the spring of 1941, in Columbia on February 18, 1897. This connection came from the sons William Evans junior (1901-1903) and Clark Evans (1910-2004). Bruner, who resided in Cleveland on Shaker Boulevard, died in the late summer of 1964 at the age of 99. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery.

Professional background

Williams Evans Bruner held an assistant position at the Philadelphia Polyclinic after graduating, while he was also employed at the Philadelphia General Hospital. In July 1894, Bruner moved to Cleveland, where he opened an ophthalmological practice, which he had headed in the Guardian Building since 1914. In addition, he pursued a university career in the position of Clinical Assistant in Ophthalmology at Western Reserve University , in 1912 he was promoted to Clinical Professor , in 1915 to Professor of Ophthalmology and head of the department of the same name, and in 1936 he was retired . He has also worked as a Visiting Ophthalmologist at St. Vincent's Hospital and Lakeside Hospital and as a Consulting Ophthalmologist at Rainbow Hospital and Maternity Hospitals. During World War I , Bruner served as a major in the Army Medical Corps .

Williams Evans Bruner, one of the leading ophthalmologists in the United States of his day, was a member of the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Medical Association , the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, which from 1920 to 1922 he was President , the Phi Beta Kappa , the Alpha Delta Phi and the Sigma Nu. Bruner, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology and the Annals of Ophthalmology, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan University in 1928 .

Fonts

• together with Solomon Solis-Cohen: A Case of Uremia in an Alcoholic Patient with Visceral Complications successfully treated by venesection, diaphoresis and nitro-glycerine, in: The Medical news, Henry C. Lea's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1893
• Hereditary Optic Atrophy with x-Ray Findings, in: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. : volume XIII, (Pt 1) , Johnson Printing, Rochester, Minn., 1922, pp. 162-174.
• DR. BENJAMIN L. MILLIKIN, in: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. : volume XIV, Johnson Printing, Rochester, Minn., 1922, pp. 428.2-432.
• Preliminary Capsulotomy in Immature Cataract, in: Journal of the American Medical Association. volume XVII, number 5, American Medical Association, Chicago, 1916, pp. 351-356.
• A Case of Pituitary Body Disease with Reference to the Effects of Early Operation, in: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. : volume XVI, Johnson Printing, Rochester, Minn., 1922, pp. 632-638.
• Need of Protecting the Eyes in Our Industrial Schools as Illustrated by a Case, in: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. : volume XX, Johnson Printing, Rochester, Minn., 1922, pp. 286-291.
• Non-shatterable glass in spectacles, in: Publication (National Society for the Prevention of Blindness), 127., National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, New York, NY, 1933
• Errors in Diagnosis of Intra-Ocular Tumors, Suspected or Real, in: Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. : volume XXXXII, Johnson Printing, Rochester, Minn., 1944, pp. 170-181.

literature

• John Franklin Meginness: Biographical annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, containing biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settlers, JH Beers, Chicago, 1903, p. 1189.
• Samuel Peter Orth: A History of Cleveland, Ohio: Biographical, SJ Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Cleveland, 1910, p. 429.
• Who's who in Michigan a biographical dictionary of leading men and women of the commonwealth, Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin, Chicago, 1947, p. 166
• Sons of the American Revolution: The Sons of the American Revolution magazine. : volume II, Sons of the American Revolution, Washington, DC, 1966, p. 22.
• Winfield Scott Downs, American Historical Company: Encyclopedia of American biography. New series. : volume 37, The American historical society, inc., New York, 1968, p. 544.
• George Derby, James Terry White: The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and molding the thought of the present time. : volume 51, JT White Co., New York, 1969, p. 177.
• Who was who in America. : volume V, 1969-1973 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 95.

Web links

• William Evans Bruner in the database of Find a Grave (English)