Category: Ophthalmo-Archeology

Eye diseases, how they were described by Karl Joseph Beck in his “Handbuch der Augenheilkunde”, that time the Professor of the Freiburg University, in the year 1823. Illustrated with modern photos of my tropical collection, which, as I find it, depict often the “natural” “untouched” state of the disease, how it was often observed also in 1823 in Europe. But, unfortunately, also today, in developing nations.

Morgagnischer Staar (morgagnian cataract)

Zuweilen soll das Trübwerden des Morgagnischen Liquor den Staar, welcher alsdann Morgagnischer Staar (Cataracta Morgagniana s. intertitialis) genannt wird, bedingen; dieses Uebel wird aber selten beobachtet, da Trübungen des Morgagnischen Dunstes schnell die Verdunklungen der Linse bedingen.

Quelle: Beck, Handbuch der Augenheilkunde (1823), S. 258-259

Morgagnian cataract

Morgagnian cataract

Morgagnian cataract

Morgagnian cataract