John Dalrymple (physician)

John Dalrymple (* 1803 in Norwich, † May 2, 1852 in London ) was an English ophthalmologist. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1827. In the same year he settled in London as an ophthalmologist down, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. From 1832 he worked at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, where he completed his training as a surgeon in 1843. In 1850 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in 1852, just weeks after the publication of his monograph on the pathology of the eye.

After John Dalrymple Dalrymple, the character is named, a sign of Graves' ophthalmopathy in which the sclera of the eye ( sclera ) is visible due to excessively enlarged palpebral fissure on the edge of the cornea.

From Dalrymple comes one of the first publications to multiple myeloma, in which he undertook histological (histological ) studies of an affected patient and first described myeloma cells.

Publications

• The anatomy of the human eye. London, 1834.
• Pathology of the human eye. London, 1852.