Louis de Wecker

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Louis de Wecker (29 September 1832 - 24 January 1906) was a French ophthalmologist born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

He studied medicine in Würzburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, earning doctorates from Würzburg (1855) and Paris (1861). From 1862 he maintained a popular ophthalmology clinic in Paris.

In 1867 he performed an enucleation of the eye of Léon Gambetta. His name is associated with "de Wecker scissors", which are small sharp-pointed scissors used for intraocular surgery of the iris and lens capsule.^[1]

Selected writings

Traité des maladies du fond de l'oeil et Atlas d'ophthalmoscopie, 1870- with Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal (1818-1884)
De l'iridotomie, 1873 (Iridotomy)
Échelle métrique pour mesurer l'acuité visuelle, 1877
Traité complet d'ophthalmologie, with Edmond Landolt (1846-1926).
"Ocular therapeutics"; translated into English- 1879
Traité theorique et pratique des maladies des yeux (Theoretical and practical treatise on maladies of the eye).
Ophtalmoscopie clinique, 1881 (Clinical ophthalmoscopy).^[2]

References

Pagel: Biographisches Lexikon (biographical information)

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Name	Wecker, Louis de
Alternative names
Short description	French ophthalmologist
Date of birth	September 29, 1832
Place of birth	Frankfurt am Main
Date of death	January 24, 1906
Place of death

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