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Georges Weill
French ophthalmologist, born 1866, Strasbourg, Alsace; died 1952.
Associated eponyms:
Adie's syndrome
A neurological phenomenon in which one or both pupils is dilated and responds slowly or not at all to light and a near stimulus, accompanied by slow constriction and relaxation in the change from near to distant vision, and impaired accommodation.
Weill's disease
French: polyostéochondrite.
Weill's syndrome
French description only: Hémi-hyperesthésie neuro-musculaire dans la tuberculose pulmonaire.
Weill-Marchesani syndrome
A hereditary disorder of connective tissue characterized by short and stocky stature with well developed muscles, brachydactyly, broad skull, short fingers and toes, stiff immobile joints, and other anomalies.
Weill-Reys syndrome
Writers disagree whether the neurological features of this syndrome are similar to those of Adie's and that the two eponyms should be used synonymously.
Biography:
Following graduation at the University of Strasbourg, Georges Weill trained in ophthalmology under Benedikt Stilling (1810-1879). During his student time, Strasbourg was under German control, but after World War I, when the Elsass-Lothringen/Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, a new French medical faculty was established. Alsace-Lorraine was originally the German territories Elsass-Lothringen which became a part of France after the peace of Westphalia in 1648.
After the armistice, Weill became associate professor of ophthalmology and in 1928 his career was crowned when he succeeded to the chair. He was 71 years old when he retired in 1937, and still lived happily for another fifteen years. He was an active as a mountaineer until shortly before his death in 1952.
Bibliography:
Obituary:
- Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Stuttgart, 1952, 120: 653-654.
- Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1952, 94: 1130-1131.
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