Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 253-266, November 1999

From Four-Bed Clinic to Modern Eye Hospital:

Ophthalmology in Leipzig, 1820–1996

  • Sabine Fahrenbach, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Karl-Sudhoff-Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  • ,
  • Peter Wiedemann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Augenklinik und Poliklinik der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint address: Prof. Dr. Peter Wiedemann, Direktor der Klinik und Poliklinik für Augenheilkunde, Liebigstr. 10–14, D - 04103 Leipzig, Germany

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 A more extensive history of Leipzig Eye Hospital is available (Fahrenbach S, Wiedemann P: Ophthalmology in Leipzig: From the Hospital for Poor Eye Patients to the Modern University Eye Clinic) Leipzig: Leipziger Universitatsverlag, 1996.

PII: S0039-6257(99)00098-3

Survey of Ophthalmology
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 253-266, November 1999