|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Jules Badal
French ophthalmologist, born 1840, Salers, Cantal; died January 1929.
Associated eponyms:
Gerstmann's syndrome
Gyrus angularis syndrome with right-left disorientation.
Biography:
Jules Badal studied in Strasbourg and received his doctorate in that university in 1864. He devoted his efforts to ophthalmology and in 1878 became a lecturer in this speciality in Bordeaux, being appointed to the chair in 1882. Badal concerned himself in particular with work on physiological optics, the introduction of the metric system in eye medicine, refraction measurements, accommodation and visual acuity, and periscopic glasses.
Bibliography:
- Clinique ophthalmologique. Paris, 1879.
- Leçons d’ophthalmologie. Paris, 1881.
- Leçons sur l’opération de la cataracte. Paris, 1883.
- Influence du diamètre de la pupille et des cercles de diffusion sur l’acuité visuelle. Paris, 1888.
|
|
|
