Chapter XV: Appendix

PRESIDENTS
_Date of_ _Date of_
_Appointment_. _Resignation_.
Sir Charles Price, Bart. 1804 1818
Mr. William Mellish 1818 1838
Rt. Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam 1838 1856
Mr. William Cotton, D.C.L., F.R.S. 1857 1867
Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., M.P.
(afterwards Lord Avebury) 1867 1913
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur
of Connaught, K.G. 1914

CHAIRMEN OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT

Mr. Harry Sedgwick 1804 1818
Mr. Ralph Price 1818 1830
Mr. Stuart Donaldson 1831 1837
Rev. J. Russell, D.D. 1837 1857
Mr. Richard Heathfield 1857 1859
Mr. F. G. Sambrooke 1860 1871
Mr. Philip Cazenove 1871 1879
Mr. Charles Gordon 1879 1897
Mr. H. P. Sturgis 1897 1921
Mr. Theodore W. Luling 1921

HONORARY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL OFFICERS

_Physicians_

John Richard Farre, M.D. 1805 1857
Frederick J. Farre, M.D. 1843 1880
Robert Martin, M.D. 1856 1884
Sir Stephen Mackenzie, M.D. 1884 1905
James Taylor, C.B.E., M.D. 1899 1919
Gordon M. Holmes, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.D. 1914 1927
William J. Adie, M.D. 1927

_Surgeons_

J. Cunningham Saunders
(Founder) 1804 Died 1810
Benjamin Travers, F.R.S. 1810 1817
Sir William Lawrence, Bart., F.R.S. 1814 1826
Frederick Tyrrell 1817 Died 1843
John Scott 1826 1846
Gilbert Mackmurdo, F.R.S. 1830 1856
John Dalrymple, F.R.S. 1832 1849
James Dixon 1843 1868
George Critchett 1843 1877
Sir William Bowman, Bart., F.R.S. 1846 1876
Alfred Poland 1848 1861
H. H. Mackmurdo 1851 1852
John C. Wordsworth 1852 1883
J. F. Streatfield 1856 Died 1886
J. W. Hulke, F.R.S. 1858 1890
George Lawson 1862 1891
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S. 1862 1878
John Couper 1866 1895
J. Soelberg Wells 1867 Died 1880
Waren Tay 1877 1904
James E. Adams 1877 1884
Sir John Tweedy, LL.D. 1878 1900
Robert Lyall 1880 Died 1882
Edward Nettleship, F.R.S. 1882 1898
R. Marcus Gunn 1883 1909
W. Lang 1884 1912
A. Quarry Silcock 1886 Died 1904
J. B. Lawford, LL.D. 1890 1918
A. Stanford Morton 1891 1909
E. Treacher Collins 1895 1922
W. T. Holmes Spicer 1898 1920
Percy Fleming 1900 1919
J. Herbert Fisher 1900 1927
Sir Arnold Lawson, K.B.E. 1900 1914
C. Devereux Marshall 1900 Died on active
service, 1918
Sir William T. Lister, K.C.M.G. 1904 1905
1919
Sir John Herbert Parsons, C.B.E., F.R.S. 1905
Claud Worth 1905 1921
W. Ilbert Hancock 1909 Died 1910
George Coats 1909 Died 1915
Malcolm L. Hepburn 1910 1926
A. Cyril Hudson 1913 1928
R. Foster Moore, O.B.E. 1914
R. Affleck Greeves 1915
F. A. Juler 1918
Charles Goulden, O.B.E. 1919
B. T. Lang 1920 Died 1928
M. H. Whiting, O.B.E 1921
P. G. Doyne 1922
Humphrey Neame 1926
Miss Ida C. Mann 1927
W. Stewart Duke-Elder 1928
Rupert S. Scott 1928

_Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgeon_

G. Seccombe Hett 1923 1929

_Medical Officer to the X-Ray Department_

Sir James Mackenzie Davidson 1899 1910
Albert Bowie 1910

_Dental Surgeons_

Arthur E. Relph 1913 1915
R. M. Fickling 1915 1928
Stanley A. Riddett 1928

_Medical Officer to the Ultra-Violet Ray Department_

W. Stewart Duke-Elder 1927
Mr. Richard Battley 1804 1818
Mr. Matthew Heathfield 1818 1834
Mr. William Bircham 1835 1844
Mr. Robert Francis Dalrymple 1844 1846
Mr. F. A. Curling 1846 1856
Mr. Charles Gordelier 1856 1860
Mr. J. Mogford 1860 1872
Mr. Robert J. Newstead 1872 1897
Mr. Robert J. Bland 1897 1923
Mr. Arthur J. M. Tarrant

INDEX

Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, 6

Adams, James, 146
his loss of sight, 163

Adams, Sir William, 1, 22, 28
at Exeter, 29
monetary grant to, and change of name, 30

Airy, the Astronomer Royal, 115, 212

Alexander, Charles, 15, 16

Amasis, King of Egypt, 43

Anæsthesia, general, 82
local, 165

Anatomy of the human eye, 94

Anderson, Mrs. Garrett, 179

Anderson, Dr. James, 167

Ansley, Alderman, 39

Antiseptics in ophthalmology, 154

Arlt, of Vienna, 96, 114

Artificial eyes, 86

Artificial pupil, operations for, 89–91

Aseptic surgery, 187

Asthenopia, 114

Astigmatism, 114

Avebury, Lord, 135, 217

Avicenna, 89

Babbage, Charles, his ophthalmoscope, 102, 127

Bacteriology, 202

Bader, Charles, 95
appointed curator, 110, 122, 138

Bancroft, Sir Squire, 182

Barth, Joseph, of Vienna, 44

Battley, Richard, early life, 3, 6, 11
appointed secretary, 14, 30, 46
and materia medica, 55–57, 59, 71
death of, 79, 220

Bedell, hospitals surveyor, 172, 215

Beer, Professor, of Vienna, 44

Belladonna, 1, 19, 23

Bennett, Dr. Hughes, 164

Bethlehem, Royal Hospital, 52
its burial ground, 132

Bircham, Francis William, 66, 78, 220

Bircham and Co., solicitors to the Hospital, 66

Blomberg, Rev. Dr., 67, 68

Blood, withdrawal of, 40–41

Boerhaave, of Leyden, 44

Bonnet, of France, 86

Bovell, J. Roach, 72

Bowman, Sir William, candidature, 75
employment of chloroform, 83
operation on lacrymal passages, 88, 120
operation for artificial pupil, 89–91
meeting with Graefe and Donders, 93–95
iridectomy for glaucoma, 96–97, 112
retirement from Hospital, 143–144
later life, 145–146
and antiseptics, 155, 159, 161

Boycott, Miss, 143

Bradford, of Boston, U.S.A., 185

Brailey, W. A. , curator, 141, 142

Brass, Robert, architect, 134

Bruecke, 95, 112

Buller, Frank, 142

Calabar bean, 131

Cambridge, H.R.H. Duke of, 108, 182

Cataract, congenital, 11, 19–24, 27, 60, 62, 88
after-treatment, 153, 156

Cazenove, Philip, 137, 149

Charnley, W., 159

Charter, granting of, 171

Charterhouse Square, 14, 48

Chloroform, 84–85

Churchill, John, 77, 79

City Companies, donations, from, 182

City Road site, 172

Clark, Sarah, 15

Clinical assistants, institution of, 109

Coats, George, 9, 10, 219

Cocaine, 164

Colkett, Miss Jane Louisa, 6

Collins, E. Treacher, 179, 182, 218

Conjunctiva, inflammation of,
in infants, 22

Conradi, 20, 27

Consulting surgeons, duties of, 144–145

Cooper, Sir Astley, connection with Saunders, 2–8
suggestion for a special institution, 11, 13
description of, by Travers, 33, 38
his pupils and relatives, 59, 75

Cooper, Samuel, 45

Cooper, White, 84, 127

Cork Street, Infirmary in, 15

Cotton, William, 108, 135, 217

Couper, John, 109
appointed assistant-surgeon, 134, 136
word picture of, 157–158
his ophthalmoscope, 158–159, 179, 213, 218

Cramer, 112

Crimean War, 104, 125, 197

Critchett, Sir Anderson, 97, 146

Critchett, George, 75, 85
and excision of the eyeball, 86
and operation for squint, 87
and operation for artificial pupil, 89–91
for glaucoma, 96–97, 108, 134
and duties of consulting surgeons, 143–145
on Poor Law schools, 140–141, 146, 218

Cuignet, 159

Cumming, William, 100, 101, 102

Curie, Madame, 212

Curling, F. A. , 78, 220

Cyrus, King of Persia, 43

Dalrymple, John, secretary to academy, 58
assistant surgeon, 64, 73, 74
early training 75–76
atlas of pathology of the eye, 77–78, 81, 118, 218

Dalrymple, Robert Francis, 78, 220

Dalrymple, William, 75–76

Davidson, H., 182, 191

Davidson, Sir James Mackenzie, 186, 187, 211, 219

Daviel, 19

Dean, appointment of, 201

Delafield, Dr. Edward, 35, 38

Desmarres, of Paris, 96

Devis, portrait of Saunders by, 32

Diet, 41

Diploma of Ophthalmology, 201

Dispensary for diseases of the eye and ear proposed, 12

Dodson, Mrs., 80

Donders, Franz Cornelius, first meeting with Graefe and Bowman,
92–94, 95, 96, 99
on Helmholtz, 103
and anomalies of refraction and accommodation, 112–114, 145, 147,
211

Doublet, Thomas, 116

Ear, anatomy of, 17

Earle, Henry, 45

East India Company, 34, 36

Egerton, C. J. , 37

Egyptian ophthalmia, 6, 29

Ehrlich, 213

Eldon Street, negotiations regarding site in, 169–171

Electro-magnets, 185

Ether, 82

Excision of the eyeball, 85–86

Exeter Eye Infirmary, 29

Farre, Dr. Arthur, 106

Farre, Dr. Frederick J., 60, 70, 72, 73, 75, 106, 215

Farre, Dr. John Richard, early life, 3
consulting physician, 14, 24
edits Saunders’ writings, 26–28, 38, 45, 53
courses of instruction, 54–56
and Saunderian Institution, 56–57
attacks on, in Lancet, 59–61
his journal, 71
his portrait, 72–73 74, 75, 81, 106, 215, 217

Finsbury, neighbourhood of, 161

Fisher, J. Herbert, 200, 218

Fitzwilliam, Earl, 69, 108, 215

Fixation forceps, 126

Flemming, Percy, 199, 218

Forbes, Litton, 159

Forster, 129

France, Mr., 126

Fraser, Dr. Thomas R., 131

Gamgee, J. S. , 106

General hospitals, ophthalmic departments in, 126, 135

Gibson, Benjamin, 28, 60, 88

Gill, Rev. T. , 51, 55, 56

Glaucoma, operations for and treatment of, 91–93, 126, 141–142

Gordon, Charles, 149, 180, 215

Governors, privileges of, 107

Graefe, A. von, operation for glaucoma, 91
meeting with Bowman and Donders, 93–94, 103, 127
and perimetry, 129
death of, 141
and latent squints, 201

Grant, Roger, 10

Greek writers, 43

Green, 27, 59

Gunn, Marcus, 160, 203, 218

Guthrie, 15

Haab, of Zurich, 187

Harkness, 109

Harnet, Miss, 143, 165

Hawes, Alfred, 116

Hawes, William, 116

Helmholtz, Professor von, 99, 103, 211

Herbert, Sydney, 105

Herodotus, 43

Hey, 23

Hill, John, 1, 8, 29

Hirschberg, of Berlin, 185

Hogg, E., 181

Horner, Professor, of Zurich, 155

Hulke, John Whitaker, 82, 85, 106, 109
microscopical and scientific work, 111, 112
career, 124–125
and the perimeter, 129, 135, 147, 177, 218

Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan, 109, 112
work on inherited syphilis, 122–123, 130
on tobacco amaurosis, 148–149 151, 159, 218

Hypermetropia, 113

Inquiry officer, 179

Iriddesis, 90–91

Iris, essay on inflammation of, 19

Jackson, Dr. Hughlings, 109, 130, 205

Jacksonian Prize Essay, for 1859, 111
for 1878, 142

Jaeger, Edward von, 117, 160

Janin, 44

Jeafferson, 37

Jones, Wharton, 102, 115, 127

_Journal of Morbid Anatomy, etc_., 71

Jussieu, Joseph de, 164

Kemp, William, 174

Kensington, Henry, 14

Kent, the Duchess of, 67, 68

Kepler, 114

King Edward VII., 208

King Edward’s Hospital Fund, 195, 214

King George I., oculist to, 10

King George II., oculist to, 10

King George III., oculist to, 11, 15

King William IV., oculist to, 31

Koller, Karl, 164

Ladies’ Working Guild, 197–198

Lancet, 46, 56, 58, 59, 202

Lander, the hospitals surveyor, 170, 172

Lang, William, 164, 204, 218

Laquer, 131

Lawford, J. B. , 162, 177, 218

Lawrence, Sir William, treatment of eye diseases at general
hospitals, 7, 33, 37
the withdrawal of blood, 40–41
history of ophthalmology, 43–44
estimates of, 44
and venereal diseases of the eye, 45–46, 54, 55
and _Lancet_, 58–59, 61
influence of one eye on the other, 86
obstruction of tear duct, 88, 114, 123, 151, 209, 218

Lawson, Sir Arnold, 200, 219

Lawson, George, 109
his career, 124, 125, 157
treatment of out-patients, 177, 218

Leber, Professor, 139

Leeches, 41

Lenses, system of numbering, 116

Library, 72

Lighting of new Hospital, 184

Lister, Joseph, 152

Lister, Sir William T., 206, 219

Liston, Robert, 82

Little Portland Street, Infirmary in, 31

Livingstone, 98

Lubbock, Sir John, 145, 170, 191, 217

Lyell, Robert, 150, 218

MacCallan, A. F. , 187

Macgregor, Patrick, 6

McHardy, Malcolm, 185

McKenzie, H. V. , 187

Mackenzie, of Glasgow, 82, 126

Mackenzie, Sir Stephen, 160, 215

McKeown, of Belfast, 185

Mackmurdo, Gilbert, 64, 73, 74, 79, 106, 218

Mackmurdo, H. H. , 81, 218

Maddox, of Bournemouth, 201

Madras Eye Infirmary, 37

Magnet operations, 125, 187

Maitre-Jan, 44

Mansion House, sale at, 64

Marshall, C. D. , 156, 205, 219

Martin, Dr. Robert, 106, 129, 160, 215

Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, 36

Medical Council, formation of, 108–109

Medical-legal observations, 120

Mellish, William, 47, 49, 64, 68, 69, 215

Milles, W. Jennings, 142

Missionaries, admitted to study at Hospital, 98

Mogford, J., 138, 220

Moorfields, 48–53

“Moorfields Club,” 161

Morax-Axenfeld bacillus, 163

Morton, A. Stanford, after-treatment of cataract operations, 153,
156, 177
his ophthalmoscopic drawings, 178, 218

Muscles of eye, paralytic affections of, 127

Myopia, 114

Nagel, 116

Nettleship, Edward, 139
appointed curator, 140, 148, 150, 151
his scientific work, 180, 205, 210, 218

Newman, Sir George, 206

Newstead, Robert J., 138, 181, 220

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 35

Nightingale, Miss Florence, 105, 134–153

Nunn, T. N. , 81

Nurses, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute of, 201

Nursing, changes in, 165, 166

Nursing, School of, 200

O’Ferrall, of Dublin, 86

Ophthalmological Society, 145, 149, 161

Ophthalmoscope, discovery of, 99

Osler, Sir William, 142

Paget, Sir James, 44

Palmerston, Lord, 30

Parsons, Sir John, 206, 219

Pasteur, 161, 212

Pay beds, report on, 214

Pearson, Karl, 180

Peel, Mrs., 165

Peerless Pool, 174–175

Peerless Street, 173

Peninsular War, 39

Perimetry, 129

Periscope, 128, 148, 149

Pharmacopœia, 72

Phillips, T., 199

Phillips, Thomas, R.A., 72, 73

Price, Sir Charles, 15, 21, 39, 47, 215

Price, Ralph, 61, 215

Prichard, of Bristol, 87

Prince and Princess of Wales, 181, 208

Prince of Wales’ Hospital fund, 195

Poor Law children and ophthalmia, 140, 141

Queen Alexandra, 208

Queen Anne, oculist to, 10

Queen Victoria, 39, 46, 69, 177, 207

Railway termini, 132, 133

Rating and Valuation Bill, 194

Rating of new Hospital, 193, 194

Rawson, Sir William, 30

Read, Sir William, 9, 10

Reports, Ophthalmic Hospital, 119
colour of paper in, 127

Retinal arteries, changes in, 203

Retinoscopy, 159

Reynolds, Dr. Edward, 35

Rheumatic affections of the eyes, 204

Richardson, R., 37

Robertson, Miss Ada, 180

Robertson, Dr. Argyll, 131

Rodgers, Dr. J. Kearney, 35

Roman Emperors, 43

Röntgen, Professor, 186

Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, 15

St. Ives, 44

Sambrooke, F. G. , 117, 137, 138, 217

Saunders, John Cunningham, early life, 1
association with Astley Cooper, 2–6, 11
proposal to start dispensary, 11–14, 16
and diseases of the ear, 17–19
operation for congenital cataract, 19–24
death of, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 49, 57, 60, 81, 118, 218

Saunderian Institution, 56, 57, 70

Saunders, Mrs., 26

Savory, Sir William, 44

Scarpa, 23, 28

Schmidt, 44

School-children, sight-testing of, 206, 207

School of Ophthalmology, opening of, 34

Schweizer, 110

Scott, John, 61; monograph on cataract, 62, 64
obituary notice, 65; 74, 75, 77, 81, 218

Sedgwick, Harry, 47
trust fund, 117, 118, 196, 215

Shepherdess Walk, 175, 176

Silcock, A. Quarry, 167, 206, 218

Simpson, Sir Janies, 82

Smee, Alfred, 116, 133

Smirke, Sir Robert, 49, 51, 53, 215

Smith, Priestley, 139, 142

Snell, of Sheffield, 185

Snellen, of Utrecht, 117

Soemerring, 44

South African War, 193, 208

Spicer, W. T. Holmes, 180, 201, 218

Squint, operation for, 87

Squints, latent, 201

Stanley, Edward, 45

Stephenson, Sydney, 141

Stevens, of New York, 201

Stevenson, John, 22, 28, 30, 31, 33

Streatfield, J. F. , 106; his career, 107–108
editor of the Reports, 119, 125, 127, 135, 136
gigantic model of eye, 166, 218

Tarsus, excision of, 22, 29

Tay, Waren, 146, 148, 151, 162, 206, 218

Taylor, “Chevalier,” 10

Taylor, Dr. James, 205, 218

Teale, Pridgin, jun., 88

Tear duct, operations on, 88
affections of, 152

Tobacco, amaurosis due to, 148

Travers, Benjamin, 33
early career of, 34
and East India Company, 36–37
his treatise on eye diseases, 38, 42, 59, 64, 70, 218

Travers, Benjamin, sen., 13

Tubercle of the eye, 140, 162

Tweedy, Sir John, 149, 157
career of, 202–203, 206
starts rent fund, 208, 218

Tyrrell, Frederick, 45, 48, 54
and Wakley, 58–59
description of, 62–63, 64, 65, 74, 76, 104, 114, 218

Tyrrell, John, 48, 50

Tyrrell, Timothy, 48, 50

Tyrrell, Walter, 106, 109

Usher, C. H. , 180

Venereal diseases of the eye, 45

Ventilation of new Hospital, 182–183

Vernon, Bowater, 139

Vetch, Dr., 7

Victoria, H.R.H. the Princess, 67–68

Wakley, Thomas, 58, 59, 60

Walton, Haynes, 82

Ware, James, 11, 20, 28, 113, 212

Wassermann, 212

Wathen, Dr., 11, 15, 31

Weber, Adolph, 131

Weekes, Henry, bust of Saunders by, 32, 118

Wells, J. Soelberg, 109
and sight-testing, 115
description of, 127–128 136, 147
his treatise on diseases of the eye, 149–150, 152, 199, 212, 218

Women become eligible as pupils and clinical assistants, 179

Wyndham, Sir Charles, 208

X-rays, 186

York, H.R.H. the Duke of, 30, 49, 67

York Hospital, Chelsea, 29

Young, Keith, 172, 190, 215

Young, Thomas, 114

Zinn, Professor, 44

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