An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

SAEMISCH, Edwin Theodor

3 entries
  • 5905

Das Ulcus corneae serpens und seine Therapie.

Bonn: M. Cohen & Sohn, 1870.

First description of serpiginous ulcer of the cornea and its treatment. Called also “Saemisch’s ulcer”.



Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › Diseases of the Eye
  • 5914

Der Frühjahrskatarrh. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde

4, Theil 2, 25-29, 1876.

First description of vernal conjunctivitis.



Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › Diseases of the Eye › Conjunctivitis
  • 5944

Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1899 – 1918.

The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.



Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY