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- Title
Peter the great and cataract surgery.
- Authors
Grzybowski, Andrzej; Zimin, Igor; Leffler, Christopher T.
- 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.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; PARIS (France); CATARACT surgery; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY of medicine
- Publication
Acta Ophthalmologica (1755375X), 2020, Vol 98, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
1755-375X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/aos.14317