Manuel Uribe y Troncoso
For other people named Manuel Uribe, see Manuel Uribe (disambiguation).
Manuel Uribe y Troncoso (17 June 1867, Toluca, Estado de México – 21 January 1959, New York City, USA) was a Mexican ophthalmologist. A joint founder of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society, he was a renowned expert on the physiology and diseases of the eye. In 1943 President Manuel Ávila Camacho appointed him one of the founding members of the Colegio Nacional.
Inventions
- A monocular self-illuminating gonioscope
- A binocular corneal microscope
- A “Demonstration Eye” for refraction anomalies
Publications
- Por tierras mejicanas (1919)
- Internal Diseases of the Eye and Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy (1937)
- A Treatise of Gonioscopy (1947)
References
- Manuel Uribe y Troncoso: Biografía (El Colegio Nacional)
- Manuel Uribe y Troncoso, A Mexican Ophthalmologist and His Contributions to Medicine (ISHM)
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