Peter the great and cataract surgery. Issue 2 (19th November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Grzybowski, Andrzej; Zimin, Igor; Leffler, Christopher T.
• Is Part Of: Acta ophthalmologica. Volume 98:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 213
• Page End: 214
• Publication Date: 2019-11-19
• Subjects: History of 18th century -- History of medicine -- History of Ophthalmology -- History of Russian Ophthalmology -- Peter the Great; Ophthalmology -- Periodicals; 617.7005
• DOI: 10.1111/aos.14317
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-375X

Abstract

Abstract: Tsar Peter Alekseyevich Romanov (1672–1725), often called Peter the Great, modernized Russia in many areas, including in the field of medicine. Peter I attended medical lectures and demonstrations and may have even performed some medical procedures himself. In Paris, he witnessed a cataract couching performed by Englishman John Thomas Woolhouse (1664–1733/4) and requested that Woolhouse train a Russian student in ophthalmology.