Pierre-Félix Lagrange

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Pierre-Félix Lagrange (January 22, 1857 - April 22, 1928) was a French ophthalmologist who was a native of Soumensac, departement lot-et-Garonne. He studied medicine in Bordeaux, and was later a professor with Faculté de Médecine de Bordeaux.

Lagrange was a specialist in the study and treatment of ophthalmic disorders, including eye tumors, strabismus, refraction anomalies and glaucoma. He is remembered for introducing a surgical technique that was a combination of an iridectomy and sclerectomy for treatment of glaucoma. This surgery was later referred to as a "sclerectoiridectomy" or Lagrange's operation. From 1903 to 1910, Lagrange was co-publisher of Encyclopédie française d'ophtalmologie.

[edit] Selected writings

• Etudes sur les tumeurs de l'oeil, de l'orbite et des annexes. Paris, G. Steinheil, 1893.
• Rapport sur le diagnostic et le traitement des tumeurs de l'orbite. Paris, 1903.
• Atlas d'ophtalmoscopie de guerre. 1918

[edit] References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.
• Who Named It?, Pierre-Félix Lagrange