Ignacio Barraquer Barraquer - bibliography

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Biography

Spanish ophthalmologist, born March 25, 1884, Barcelona; died May 13, 1965, Barcelona.

Bibliography

  • Un procédé d'extrême douceur pour l'extraction "in toto" de la cataracte.
    La clinique ophtalmologique, Paris, 1917, 22: 328–333.
    Attempts to extract cataract by suction and aspiration date from ancient times. Barraquer employed a special machine of his own invention.
  • Extracción ideal de la catarata (Nota presentada en las Reales Academias de Medicina y Cirugía de Madrid y Barcelona).
    España Oftalmológica, Revista de Clínica y Terapéutica Ocular, May 1917, 2 (4): 81-83.
  • Crítica de los métodos modernos de extracción de la catarata y Sobre mil facoérisis, proyecciones cinematográficas. Ponencia y comunicación presentadas al Primer Congreso Nacional de Medicina.
    Extraído de El Siglo Médico. Madrid: Imprenta del Sucesor de Enrique Teodoro, 1920.
  • Facoérisis. Comunicación presentada al Congreso Internacional de Oftalmología de Washington, celebrado en mayo de 1922.
    La Medicina Íbera, number 239, June 3, 1922.
  • La enseñanza de siete años de facoérisis.
    La Medicina Íbera, number 304, September 1, 1923.
  • Reproducido también en: Facoérisis. Libro Homenaje al Profesor Barraquer en sus bodas de oro. Barcelona: Editorial Barna, S.A., 1952: 79-84.
  • A. K. Greene:
    Ignacio Barraquer (1884–1965) and the Barraquer family of ophthalmologists.
    The Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, Ottawa, February 2001, volume 36, number 1.

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