Peter the great and cataract surgery

Andrzej Grzybowski; Igor Zimin; Christopher T Leffler

doi:10.1111/aos.14317

Peter the great and cataract surgery

Acta Ophthalmol. 2020 Mar;98(2):213-214. doi: 10.1111/aos.14317. Epub 2019 Nov 19.

Authors

Andrzej Grzybowski^{1

2}, Igor Zimin³, Christopher T Leffler⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland.
² Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Foundation for Ophthalmology Development, Poznan, Poland.
³ First St. Petersburg Medical University n. a. I. P. Pavlov, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.

PMID: 31742926
DOI: 10.1111/aos.14317

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.

Keywords: History of 18th century; History of Ophthalmology; History of Russian Ophthalmology; History of medicine; Peter the Great.

Publication types

Biography
Historical Article

MeSH terms

Cataract Extraction / education
Cataract Extraction / history*
Education, Medical / history*
Famous Persons*
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Humans
Male
Ophthalmology / education
Ophthalmology / history*
Paris
Russia (Pre-1917)

Personal name as subject

Peter Alekseyevich Romanov