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Chuta Oguchi - bibliography

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Biography

Japanese ophthalmologist, born January 6, 1875, Uede, Nagano prefecture; died 1945.

Bibliography

  • Ueber die Wirkung von Blutinjektionen in den Glaskörper nebst Bemerkungen über die sogenannte Retinitis proliferans. Doctoral thesis.
    Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, Berlin, 1913, 84: 446-520.
  • 50 years History of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society. Biographical:
  • Isidor Fischer, publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre.
    Berlin – Wien, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932.
  • Peter Beighton & Gretha Beighton:
    The Person Behind the Syndrome. Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1997.
  • Saiichi Mishima:
    Oguchi, Chuta.
    In: Jean-Paul Wayenborgh, editor: IBBO. International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Vision Scientists. Volume 2. Oostende 2002.
    Hirschberg History of ophtalmology. The monographs ; volume 7: 172-173 [with photo].

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