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Ernest Edmund Maddox
British ophthalmologist, born March 16, 1860, Shipton, Oxfordshire; died November 4, 1933.
Associated eponyms:
Maddox' cylinder
Glass that produces a straight line from a light point and thus simplifies the subjective evaluation of the angle of strabismus.
Maddox' rod
The Maddox rod is used to help delineate and characterize dysconjugate gaze. It is a disc of red glass in which are molded grooves.
Maddox' scale
A cross-shaped device with gradation scale used to measure the angle of squint.
Maddox' wing test
An apparatus used to test for imbalances in binocular vision.
Biography:
Ernest Edmund Maddox Maddox studied in Edinburgh and London and received his doctorate in Edinburgh in 1882. He became assistant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary, and ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, where he later became consulting ophthalmic surgeon. On the title page of The clinical use of prisms and the decentering of lenses he described himself as "Late Syme Surgical Fellow, Edinburgh".
Maddox married Grace Rivers née Monteath. His daughter Mary (1897-1972) became the first woman orthoptist of Great Britain. In 1931 he was president of the Ophthalmic Section of the British Medical Association
We thank Adam Moore, and Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- The clinical use of prisms: And the decentering of lenses.
Bristol : John Wright; and London : Hamilton Adams, 1893. Translated into German.
5th edition, 1907 by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.
- Tests and studies of the ocular muscles.
Bristol and London, 1898. 1907. Translated into German.
3rd edition, Philadelphia : Keystone.
- Golden rules of refraction. Bristol and London, 1902.
- Who Was Who 1929-1940 : a Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Dies during the Period 1929-1940. London : Black, 1941.
- Obituary: Mary Lowndes-Yates (née Maddox), 1897-1972.
British journal of ophthalmology, 1973, 57: 216.
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