Joseph Forlenze
Joseph -Nicolas- Blaise Forlenze (* February 3, 1757; † July 22, 1833; born as Giuseppe Nicolò Leonardo Biagio Forlenza ), was an Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon. It is known as one of the main ophthalmologists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Especially in France, he was known during the First Empire for his cataract surgery.
Life
Forlenze was born in Picerno ( Basilicata, at that time part of the Kingdom of Naples ) in a doctor's family. His parents were Felice and Vita Pagano. His father Felice and his uncle Sebastiano and Giuseppe were craft surgeons by the aristocratic family Capece Minutolo from Ruoti. After he had studied his catechism to Ruoti, he moved to Naples, where he began his surgery study. In France, he put this under Pierre -Joseph Desault continued, with whom he became friends, and whose staff he was in the joint anatomy studies.
Then moved Forlenze to England, where he spent two years, and his knowledge in the St George's Hospital in London, then under the leadership of John Hunter, Advanced. He also traveled to the Netherlands and Germany. After his return to France, he began to work as an ophthalmologist. He distinguished between various ocular diseases and asked this dar. using wax masks
In 1797 he led in the presence of a committee of the Institute and some members of the government as well as French and foreign scientists eye surgery through in a nursing home in Paris. In 1798 he became a surgeon at the Hôtel des Invalides, Hôtel- Dieu (Paris), where he made many notable interventions.
Forlenze healed soldiers from Napoleon's army who returned from the Egyptian expedition with serious eye diseases. He healed well known personalities such as Jean- Étienne -Marie Portalis, Minister for Religious Affairs, and the poet Ponce Denis Lebrun, which he restored the sight of one eye, which had been covered for twelve years from a cataract. Lebrun dedicated to him a verse in his ode called Les Conquêtes de l' homme sur la nature ( the conquest of nature by man ). Napoleon appointed him with a Royal Decree to " chirurgien oculiste the lyceums, hospices and all voluntary welfare Maintain the Empire ". Consequently Forlenze was sent to the provinces in order to practice there as an ophthalmologist.
His achievements spread to Italy, where he operated in cities like Turin and Rome in vain. In Rome, he healed the Cardinal Doria and was publicly honored by Caroline de Bourbon. His writing Considérations sur l' opération de la pupil Artificielle (1805 ) is regarded as one of the most important medical works of the time. Forlenze died on July 22, 1833 of a stroke at "Café de Foy " in Paris, where he often spent his evenings.
Writings
- Considérations sur l' opération de la pupil Artificielle, 1805
- Notice sur le développement de la lumière et des sensations dans les aveugles - nés, à la suite de l' opération de la cataracte, 1817
Honor
- Legion of Honour, Knight
- Order of St Michael and St George, Honorary Member