Edward Nettleship
Edward Nettleship ( March 3, 1845 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, † October 30, 1913 in Hindhead, Surrey ) was an English ophthalmologist.
Life and work
Edward Nettleship was born on March 3, 1845 as the son of a lawyer in Kettering, where he attended Kettering Grammar School also until 1860. As he should be a farmer, he studied at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, then at the Royal Veterinary College in London. In 1867 he graduated with a diploma as a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons ( MRCVS ). In addition to veterinary medicine, he studied human medicine at the same time at King's College London and earned 1868 Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons.
After completing his medical studies was Nettleship assistant for Jonathan Hutchinson at the Royal London Hospital and colleague of Warren Tay (1843-1927) at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 1877 he met the German ophthalmologist Julius Hirschberg know in London. Between the two doctors, a scientific correspondence that lasted until death Nettleships developed.
From 1878 to 1896 Nettleship worked as an eye surgeon and lecturer at St Thomas' Hospital in London. There he worked among other things as a mentor of Charles Howard Usher ( 1865-1942 ). He also led a private practice until 1902. From 1895 to 1897 Nettleship was the first Chairman of the British Society of Ophthalmology and in 1896 chairman of the ophthalmology section of the British Medical Community. In 1903 him the Nettleship Medal of the Society of Ophthalmology was created in honor. In 1912 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Nettleship died on October 30, 1913 of complications from rectal cancer at his country estate to Long Down Hollow in Hindhead, Surrey.
Importance
Nettleship published in the field of ophthalmology over a hundred scientific articles, which appeared among others in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports and Transactions of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom. He authored the successful textbook of ophthalmology The student 's guide to diseases of the eye, which came out in 1879 and was repeatedly reprinted.
Is particularly well known for his work Nettleship in the field of hereditary eye diseases. He provided important contributions in the study of ocular albinism, the retinitis pigmentosa and of hereditary night blindness. Before he specialized in ophthalmology, Nettleship studied veterinary medicine and dermatology, in the latter field he described in 1869 for the first time the clinical picture of urticaria pigmentosa.