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Carl Friedrich Richard Förster
German ophthalmologist, born November 15, 1825, Lissa;
died July 7, 1902, Breslau.
Associated eponyms:
Aubert-Förster phenomenon
It is assumed that the resolving power of the eye is equal for short and long distances. The Aubert-Förster phenomenon consists of the opposite.
Förster's choroiditis
A form of disseminated choroiditis associated with syphilis.
Förster's photometer
Apparatus for clinical determination of adaptation.
Förster's shift
The borders of the visual fields is found significantly closer to the fixation point, when the object is moved away from this, than when it is moved closer.
Biography:
Carl Friedrich Richard Förster studied at Breslau, Heidelberg, Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1849, and was habilitated for opthalmology in 1857. His important works were published while he was Dozent, and professor of opthalmology (from 1873) at Breslau.
In 1894 Förster was made a life member of the Prussian Herrenhaus. He celebrated his 50 year doctoral jubilee on July 31, 1899, and then retired.
Bibliography:
- Ophtalmologische Beiträge. Berlin, 1862.
- Beziehungen der Allgemein-Leiden und Organ-Erkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Erkrankungen des Sehorgans.
In: Edwin Theodor Saemisch and Albrecht von Graefe: Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde. Leipzig 1877, 7, Theil 5, pp. 59-234.
- Künstliche Reifung des Cataracts.
[Knapp’s] Archiv für Augenheilkunde, Wiesbaden, 1883.
- Verbreitung der Cholera durch die Brunnen.
[Zehender’s] Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Stuttgart, 1873.
- Das Wasser als Träger des Choleragiftes.
[Küchenmeister’s] Zeitschrift für Epidemiologie und öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, Darmstadt and Leipzig, 1874.
- Einfluss der Concavgläser auf die Weiterentwicklung der Myopie.
[Knapp’s] Archiv für Augenheilkunde, Wiesbaden, XIV.
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