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Pierre-Félix Lagrange

Born  1857
Died  1928

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    French ophthalmologist, born January 22, 1857, Soumensac, departement lot-et-Garonne, region Aquitaine, died April 22, 1928, Paris.

    Biography of Pierre-Félix Lagrange

    Pierre-Felix Lagrange studied in Bordeaux where he became Professeur agrégé of surgery at the early age of 26. He later turned to ophthalmology, of which he was professor at his alma mater from 1910. Lagrange concerned himself with studies on strabismus, refraction anomalies and eye tumours, and distinguished himself in the surgical treatment of glaucoma.

    Lagrange received many honours. He was Membre de l'Institut de France, Correspondant de l'Académie des sciences, Associé national de l'Académie de Médecine, and Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur

    Bibliography

    • Anatomie pathologique et pathogénie du chalazion. Paris, 1889.
    • Leçons sur les anomalies de la réfraction et de l'examen du sens chromatique et du champ visuel. Paris, 1890.
    • Traité pratique des anomalies de la vision. Paris, 1892.
    • Etudes sur les tumeurs de l'oeil, de l'orbite et des annexes.
      Paris, G. Steinheil, 1893.
    • Traité des tumerurs de l'oeil. 2 volumes. Paris, 1901 and 1904.

    • Précis d'ophtalmologie. Paris, 1897; 3rd edition, 1907.
    • Rapport sur le diagnostic et le traitement des tumeurs de l'orbite. Paris, 1903.
    • Les fractures de l'orbite par projectiles de guerre.
      Paris, 1917; translated into English.
    • Atlas d'ophtalmoscopie de guerre. Paris, 1918.
    • Du glaucome et de l'hypotonie. Paris, 1922. Lagrange was co-publisher of the Encyclopédie française d'ophtalmologie.
      Paris, 1903-1910. Biographical etc:
    • Isidor Fischer (1869-1943), publisher:
      Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
      Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932.
    • Jeremy M. Norman, editor:
      Morton’s Medical Bibliography. An annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton).
      Fifth edition. Scolar Press, 1991.
    • Wikipedia – the free encyclopædia on the Internet.

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