My talk on 29th Feb, 2016 in National Eye Center , Cairo

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By
Dr.Ahmed Alsherbiny
MSc. Ophth

2. Famous Eye Doctors

3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
the creator of Sherlock Holmes was an Ophthalmologist.

4. Socrates
Famous football player of Brazil was a qualified ophthalmologist

5. Bashar Al-Asad
current President of Syria is an ophthalmologist

6. Ophthalmology & Art

7. Van Gogh

8. There is much speculation concerning the strong distinctive yellow color
and halos in Van Gogh’s paintings. They may have been due to
xanthopsia, a form of dyschromatopsia that causes the sufferer to have
the impression of seeing things through a yellow filter. This condition
may be caused by early cataract but, in van Gogh’s case, may have been
through intoxication by the digitalis that he was prescribed for mania and
depression.

9. The artist could also have been suffering from glaucoma, and the
halos clearly painted around the stars-Starry night painting—may
have been created under the effect of high interocular pressure
(IOP) spikes

10. Claude Monet

11. The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885

12. Contrary to his earlier paintings, his later work has
fewer details, the shapes are “blurring”. The cataract related
changes in his lenses reduced their sensitivity to
contrast and light permeability

13. Many of these later paintings verge on the abstract, with colors
bleeding into each other and a lack of rational shape and
perspective

14. The first one was painted when he used his left eye, which had
not been operated on and was affected with cataract: warm colors
red- orange-yellow, are dominating. The second one, painted
when he used his right eye operated for cataract surgery, shows
only cool colors, blue and violet.

15. Munch

16. Edvard Munch Disturbed Vision 1930
At the age of 67 years, the great Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch suffered
from intraocular hemorrhage of the right eye and when this was waning he
painted what he saw within his eye. The most striking ones have the shape of a
big bird with a round head and a sharp beak, probably the representation of the
prepapillary loops of a vitreous detachment

17. Edvard Munch The Artist's Injured Eye
As the haemorrhage cleared further, he perceived misty, fibrillar shadows that
sometimes took the form of a bird’s head and wings

18. Paul Henry

19. Inherited deficiencies of color vision—Daltonism are frequent. Approximately 8
percent of males suffer from it and it is not surprising that various artists were
affected with this disease. The effects of this color deficiency are difficult to
establish because of the many possibilities of the art of painting; nevertheless
they have been clearly demonstrated in the case of famous painters such as the
remarkable Irish painter of landscapes, Paul Henry

20. Charles Méryon

21. was a French artist, who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from
colour-blindness. Although now little-known in the English-speaking world, he is
generally recognised as the most significant etcher of 19th century

22. Francisco Goya

23. Francisco Goya (Fuendetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828), Spanish painter. One of
his most famous work is The Nude Maja.

24. The nature of his illness probably was autoimune disorder Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada
syndrome. At the age of 47 he probably got VKH syndrome. A disease affected his
vision, hearing and balance. The period of Goya’s artistic output known as the
»Black paintings« have been created during the time he had the disease.
Some authors think his case was due to syphilis, others suggests lead poisoning

25. Georgia O’Keeffe

26. Georgia O’Keeffe (Sun Prairie, 1887 – Santa Fe, 1986), was an American artist. She
is the best known for her impressive paintings of flowers and vistas and subjects
of the American Southwest

27. With advancing age came severe loss of vision due to age related macular
degeneration and central retinal vein occlusion.

28. a time when her vision was failing to critical levels with central black scotomas
which reflect on her paintings

29. Degas

30. Changes in Degas' style correlated closely with this progressive loss of
vision. probably had a progressive retinal disease that caused macular
damage. His works in the 1870s were drawn quite precisely with facial
details, and attention to the folding

31. As his visual acuity began to diminish in the 1880s and 1890s, he drew
the same subjects, but the shading lines and details of the face, and
clothing became progressively less refined.

32. Lee Allen

33. the painter Lee Allen (1910), figures a famous
specialist in the representation of disorders of the eye
before the introduction of photography. He described
and drew the scotomas produced by his own ARMD

34. Paul Cézanne

35. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was myopic and also suffered from diabetes.
The myopic (or short-sighted) painter could see his canvas clearly

36. but not the more distant object he was painting
his long-range landscape paintings are less clear and more distorted

37. William Turner

38. Turner is world-famous as one of the greatest painters of light, sky and
water – the great British artist loved ships, water and dramatic natural
subjects all his life.

39. Apart from being wonderful works of art, Turner’s paintings also
document the deterioration of his cataract.

40. El Greco

41. It was assumed that El Greco (1541–1614) suffered from astigmatism
(This hypothesis claimed that El Greco elongated vertically the form of
his figures, especially their faces) Further analysis of his work concluded
that the distorted tendencies in El Greco’s works are attributed to a
purposeful style and not a visual abnormality.

42. Viktor Brauner

43. As for the surrealistic Rumanian painter Viktor Brauner (1903–1968) he
prophetically painted himself without his right eye several years before
he lost it indeed during a fight !!

44. Famous Eye Patients

45. Sylvester Stallone
Complications his mother suffered during labor forced her obstetricians to use
two pairs of forceps during his birth; misuse of these accidentally severed the
facial nerve and caused paralysis in parts of his face.

46. Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli became blind at the age of 12 years old
following a football accident in which he was hit in the head.
Born with congenital glaucoma he had very
poor eyesight until at the age of 12 while playing soccer
he hit his head. In the hospital 2 or 3 days later he had
bleeding on his brain and became totally blind ever since.

47. Stevie Wonder
He was born one month prematurely and was placed in an incubator
in the special care unit of the hospital. During that time he
developed retinopathy of prematurity and became blind in
both eyes.

48. Galileo Galilei
His sight started to deteriorate at the age of 68 years old and eventually leaded
to complete blindness. Galileo probably suffered from bilateral iridocyclitis as a
complication of his rheumatoid disease. This iridocyclitis then produced a
complicated cataract, synechiae and an occlusion membrane.

49. Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
while motoring from La Spezia to Genova, he had a head-on collision
with another car. He received deep cuts into the right cheek, temple and
the right eye was cared for by Professor Baiardi of Torino. Later,
Professor E Fuchs of Vienna was called in consultation and finally the
two decided that the eye should be enucleated on October 17, 1912,
since it was hopelessly lost and there was danger of eliciting a
sympathetic uveitis in the other eye

50. Hannibal
Hannibal lost one eye due to conjunctivitis seven
months after he had crossed the alps, while wading through
a fetid Etruscan (= Tuscan) Swamp.

51. Alexander the great
Arrian describes Alexander—the strong, handsome commander with
one eye dark as the night and one blue as the sky. This is a sign of
heterochromia. Heterochromia refers to a difference in coloration,
usually of the iris

52. Theodore Roosevelt
He received trauma to the eye in 1908 while playing tennis. He was hit with a ball
hard enough to shatter his glasses and lacerate the skin around his eye.
Apparently, a cataract developed in the left eye reducing vision to light
perception. It is quite likely that this was a traumatic cataract.

53. Moshe Dayan
he was early on June 2, 1941 hit by machine gun fire. He happened to hold his
field glasses front of his eyes. A bullet splintered the lens and a metal casing
became embedded in his left orbit. The eye was apparently completely shattered.
The orbital wound healed slowly and because of severe orbital fractures a
prosthesis could not be worn and he was forced to adopt the black eye patch
that became his trademark. Dayan thought that he looked worse with the plastic
eye which was not in alignment with his right eye and he therefore continued to
wear the black patch.

54. Taha Hussein
He became blind at the age of three, the result of faulty traditional
remedy treatment by an unskilled barber, a condition which caused him
a great deal of anguish throughout his entire life.

55. Umm Kulthum
She suffered from Goiter with thyroid eye disease (TED) which
pushed her to wear dark glasses later in her life.

56. Louis Braille
Louis Braille became blind after he accidently stabbed
himself in the eye with his father’s awl. He later became an
inventor and designed braille writing which enabled bind
people to read through the feeling a series of organized
bumps representing letters.

57. Queen Nefertiti
Some authors think that a missing left eye means she might
have been blind in her left eye.

58. Famous Events

59. Allvar Gullstrand
(5 June 1862, – 28 July 1930) a Swedish ophthalmologist, is the only
recipient of Nobel prize in Ophthalmology

60. •Albert Einstein's eyes were removed by his
ophthalmologist Dr. Henry Abrams during
the autopsy in 1955 and stored. The eyes
were put up for auction in 1994.

61. Lewis Carroll had episodes of micropsia
during his migraine attacks which made him
to conceive the idea of Alice seeing things
smaller than they were.

62. The term "Uvea“ was first used by Galen, a Roman
physician to include both the choroid and the iris
because they resemble a grape from which the stalk
had been torn out leaving a hole in front, the hole
being the pupil of the eye.

63. Thank You