ABSTRACT
El doctor Juan Santos Fernández Hernández, una de las más prominentes figuras médicas de Cuba, destacado en la medicina y cirugía oftalmológica, realizó, por primera vez en la Isla, complejas operaciones oftálmicas. Fue autor de un gran número de artículos e informes científicos y es considerado uno de los más prolíficos autores cubanos del siglo XIX. El objetivo de este trabajo fue describir mediante una síntesis biográfica los principales logros del Dr. Juan Santos Fernández Hernández. El nombre de este galeno aparece entre las personalidades médicas cubanas más distinguidas de todos los tiempos por su saber y su civismo, por su abnegación y perseverancia, por su valiosa contribución al progreso de la ciencia y la cultura nacional (AU).
Doctor Juan Santos Fernandez Hernandez is one of the most prominent medical figures in Cuba, outstanding in ophthalmological medicine and surgery. He made, for the first time on the Island, complex ophthalmic operations. He was the author of a large number of articles and scientific reports and is considered one of the most prolific Cuban authors of the nineteenth century. The objective of this work is to describe through a biographical synthesis, the main achievements of Dr. Juan Santos Fernandez Hernandez. The name of this doctor appears among the most distinguished Cuban medical personalities of all times due to his knowledge and his civics, for his dedication and perseverance, for his valuable contribution to the progress of national science and culture (AU).
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Humans , Male , Ophthalmology/history , Research Personnel/history , Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures/history , Ophthalmologists/history , History of Medicine , Biographies as TopicABSTRACT
Se narran los sucesos históricos más relevantes de la práctica de la especialidad de Oftalmología en la provincia de Matanzas y los relacionados con la formación de profesionales a partir de la década del 70 del siglo XX. Al utilizar el método de la narración histórica, se propició la reflexión sobre los propios acontecimientos y su relación con el contexto socio-económico al momento en que estos se produjeron; destacándolos como los antecedes y factores favorecedores del desarrollo de la Oftalmología en Matanzas. Este trabajo se realizó no sólo para narrar de manera cronológica la historia desde los inicios y creciente práctica local de la especialidad, sino también, como a manera de testimonio para las actuales y futuras generaciones, de cómo tributaron los profesionales, las instituciones y los propios eventos, al avance científico y al impacto social de la especialidad en Matanzas. Se concluye, que el comienzo del esplendor de la práctica de la Oftalmología en la provincia de Matanzas, se enmarca a la década del 70 del siglo pasado; y a los inicios del siglo XXI al de mayor desarrollo acumulado. Todo este salto de calidad en el tiempo y en el espacio, ha sido posible, gracias a las políticas de salud y educacionales implementadas por el Ministerio de Salud Pública del país (AU).
The authors recount the most relevant historical facts of the Ophthalmology practice in the province of Matanzas and those related to professionals´ training from the seventies of the XX century. Using the method of historical recount helped the reflection on the proper facts and their relation to the socio-economic context at the moment they took place, highlighting them as antecedents and factor favoring the development of Ophthalmology in Matanzas. The current paper was written not only to recount in a chronological way the history from the beginning and growing local practice of the specialty, but also as a testimony for the current and future generations to know how the professionals, institutions and events contributed to the scientific advance and to the social impact of the specialty in Matanzas. It is concluded that the beginning of the splendor of Ophthalmology practice in the province of Matanzas falls within the decade of the seventies of the past century, and the beginning of the XXI century is the time of the bigger accumulated development. All this quality jump in the time and space has been possible thanks to health and educational politics implemented by the Ministry og Public Health of the country (AU).
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Humans , Ophthalmology/history , Professional Practice , Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures/history , Surgical Instruments/history , Ophthalmologists/history , History of Medicine , History, 20th Century , Professional Training , Faculty/historyABSTRACT
Jan Evangelista Purkinje was a Czech physician with an exceptional capacity for innovative thinking, and he was one of the fathers of experimental physiology, experimental pharmacology, experimental psychology, histology, embryology, and physical anthropology. Several achievements are named after him, from his prodigious productivity. Of special interest of this paper was his pioneering role in the rise of experimental physiology, microscopical anatomy, and histological methods by the 1830´s that allowed him define more accurate data concerning the structure of nerve tissue of animals and humans such as the now known "Purkinje's cells" and others cells of the brain. He investigated the structure of neuronal processes, including the dendrites. Purkinje recognized possible functional differences between a variety of types of neurons and speculated about their interrelations. He was one of the great geniuses of science.
Jan Evangelista Purkinje foi um médico checo com excepcional capacidade de pensamento inovador e um dos pais da fisiologia experimental, farmacologia experimental, psicologia experimental, histologia, embriologia e antropologia física. Várias conquistas receberam o nome dele, de sua produtividade prodigiosa. De interesse especial deste trabalho enaltece-se o seu papel pioneiro no surgimento da fisiologia experimental, anatomia microscópica e métodos histológicos na década de 1830. Isso permitiu que ele definisse dados mais precisos sobre a estrutura do tecido nervoso de animais e humanos, como as agora conhecidas "células de Purkinje" e outras células do cérebro. Ele investigou a estrutura dos processos neuronais, incluindo os dendritos. Purkinje reconheceu possíveis diferenças funcionais entre uma variedade de tipos de neurônios e especulou sobre suas inter-relações. Ele foi um dos grandes gênios da ciência.
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Humans , History, 19th Century , Physicians/history , Physiology/history , Purkinje Cells/cytology , Dendrites , Nerve Tissue , Ophthalmology/history , Czech Republic , Anatomy/historyABSTRACT
RESUMEN Cuba ha demostrado en todas las épocas, la grandeza de sus científicos, los avances y logros realizados por ellos. Ya desde los inicios de 1830 se comenzaba a hablar de adelantos en la oftalmología cubana. Desde ese momento nuestros científicos tenían presente el pensamiento filosófico en función de la investigación científica para lograr una tecnología de punta en la especialidad. Al triunfo de la revolución, en 1959, el desarrollo de la oftalmología era casi desconocido. En el presente siglo los servicios oftalmológicos del país disponen de todo lo indispensable para hacer frente al desafío que se avecina constantemente con la tecnología. La Misión Milagro, el mejor ejemplo del conocido impacto de los avances y prestigio de oftalmología en Cuba y otros países, permite afirmar que esta tecnociencia abarata los tratamientos y la atención a los pacientes con independencia de sus estados económicos. Cuba ha demostrado que no solo el capital monetario es importante para el desarrollo social, pues el capital humano eleva la sociedad a nuevas dimensiones. En esto consiste el impacto político de la población, beneficiada por los avances revolucionarios en la oftalmología cubana (AU).
SUMMARY Through the times, Cuba has showed the greatness of its scientists and their advances and achievements. So early as from the beginning of 1830 there were commentaries on the advances in Cuban Ophthalmology and from those times Cuban scientists put the philosophic thought in function of the scientific research to accede to latest technology in the specialty. At the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, the development of Ophthalmology was almost inexistent, but in the current century the ophthalmological services of the country have the essential to affront the constant challenge of new technologies. The results of Mision Milagro, (Miracle Mission, the program organized by Cuban Government to heal ophthalmologic diseases in other countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and others) allow us to affirm that techno-sciences reduce the costs of the patients' treatment and care regardless of their economic status. Cuba has showed that not only the monetary capital is important for the social development: human capital raises society to new dimensions. That is the political impact on the population benefited by the revolutionary advances in Cuban Ophthalmology (AU).
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Ophthalmology/history , Social Change/history , Technological Development/history , Biomedical Technology/history , Cuba , Professional Training , History of MedicineABSTRACT
A tiny structure, the pupil, attracts too much attention, since the antiquity. The pupil as part of the "'window of/to the soul", the eyes, it can demonstrate a clinical disorder sign, or simply a psychological expression. In this paper, it is studied the situation in which the pupillary reï¬ex to light is compromised, but the accommodation reï¬ex is preserved, what is named after Argyll Robertson, the frst Scottish ophthalmologist, who besides described the signal (1869), he also tried to defned its clinical signifcance. Afterwards, it was clearly demonstrated its relationship with tertiary neurosyphilis.
Uma estrutura minúscula, a pupila, atrai muita atenção, desde a antiguidade. A pupila como parte da "'janela da alma'", os olhos, poderia demonstrar um sinal de desordem clínica, ou, simplesmente, uma expressão psicológica. Neste trabalho, estuda-se a situação em que o reï¬exo pupilar à luz é comprometido, mas o reï¬exo de acomodação é preservado, o que leva o nome de Argyll Robertson, o primeiro oftalmologista escocês que além de descrever o sinal (1869), também tentou defniu seu signifcado clínico. Posteriormente, foi claramente demonstrada sua relação com a neurossíflis terciária.
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Humans , History, 21st Century , Ophthalmology/history , Reflex, Pupillary , Pupil Disorders/diagnosis , Pupil Disorders/physiopathology , Autonomic Nervous System , Accommodation, Ocular/physiology , NeurosyphilisABSTRACT
Johann Sebastian Bach suffered during the last year of his life of a progressive visual defect despite two operations done by a famous but quite controversial English ocular surgeon of that time. The exact diagnosis of his ocular problems is unclear but cataracts and complicated glaucoma seem the most plausible. A septic complication following the ocular surgery could have weakened Bach's health leading to his death only three months after the last intervention. In this paper diverse less known aspects of Bach's disease and life are reported.
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Humans , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , Vision Disorders/history , Famous Persons , Music/history , Ophthalmology/history , Physicians , Vision Disorders/surgery , England , GermanyABSTRACT
Desde la aparición de la primera publicación cubana sobre Oftalmología en el año 1919 hasta 1961 pasaron 43 años, donde solo hubo revistas en 26 de esos años y la de más duración en forma continua fue de solo siete años, lo que denota una inconsistencia en la literatura oftalmológica de Cuba, por lo que se perdieron importantes materiales científicos, así como actualizaciones registradas y noticias del acontecer de la especialidad en el país. Nos propusimos hacer una revisión acerca de las publicaciones de esta especialidad desde su surgimiento hasta la actualidad(AU)
Since the emergence of the first Cuban publications about ophthalmology in 1919 till 1961, forty three years have elapsed but just in 26 of them, several journals were published whereas the ones that lasted longer on a continuous basis were published in seven years. All this reveals some inconsistency of the ophthalmological literature in Cuba due to loss of important scientific materials as well as recorded updates and news about the events within this specialty in the country. The objective of this paper was to make a review of the publications about ophthalmology since its inception up to now(AU)
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Humans , Scientific and Technical Publications , Abstracting and Indexing/classification , Ophthalmology/historyABSTRACT
The access to ophthalmological care in Chile has been historically a problem. Only at the end of the twentieth century concrete solutions were promoted. In 1960, Primary Care Ophthalmologic Units were created to ease the access to ophthalmology, due to the efforts of Professor Juan Arentsen. Their functioning was organized and standardized subsequently using a model proposed by the Chilean Ophthalmologic Society, leading to a better patient flow and reducing waiting lists. These units became an innovative initiative to reduce the gaps in Chilean public health, optimizing the professional and infrastructural assets of the public health care system and achieving a new organization for the ophthalmological health care net.
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History, 20th Century , Humans , Ophthalmology/history , Primary Health Care/history , Chile , Delivery of Health Care , Ophthalmology/organization & administration , Primary Health Care/organization & administration , Public HealthABSTRACT
El Servicio de Oftalmología del Hospital General Calixto García ha estado indisolublemente ligado a la formación de oftalmólogos desde su creación y fue el primer servicio acreditado como docente en Cuba. El propósito de esta investigación es exponer algunas memorias históricas del Pabellón Juan Santos Fernández y del Servicio de Oftalmología desde su construcción, apoyadas en la revisión de documentos elaborados por el Dr. Jaime Alemañy Martorell, recientemente fallecido y quien dedicara su vida al desarrollo de la Oftalmología en Cuba a partir del año 1959; el Dr. Gregorio García Delgado, historiador del MINSAP, así como en entrevistas a antiguos trabajadores del Hospital Universitario General Calixto García(AU)
The Ophthalmological Service of General Calixto Garcia hospital has been permanently linked, since its creation, to the formation of ophthalmologists and was the first accredited teaching service in Cuba. The objective of this research study was to present some historical memoirs of Juan Santos Fernandez pavilion and of the Ophthalmological Service based on the review of documents from Dr. Jaime Alemany Martorell, who recently died after devoting his life to the development of ophthalmology in Cuba since 1959 and from Gregorio Garcia Delgado, historian of the Ministry of Public Health, as well as interviews made to former workers of General Calixto Garcia university hospital(AU)
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Humans , Hospitals, Teaching/history , Memory, Episodic , Ophthalmology/history , Famous PersonsABSTRACT
In this paper, it was studied how physics affected development of optometry in the United States, from aspects of formation and academization of optometry. It was also revealed that history of optometry was analogous to history of engineering. Optics in the 19th century was divided into electromagnetic study of light and visual optics. Development of the visual optics promoted professionalization of ophthalmology that had already started in the 18th century. The visual optics also stimulated formation of optometry and optometrists body in the late 19th century of the United States. The American optometrists body were originated from opticians who had studied visual optics. Publication of several English academic textbooks on visual optics induced appearance of educated opticians (and jewelers). They acquired a right to do the eye examination in the early 20th century after C. F. Prentice's trial in 1897, evolving into optometrists. The opticians could be considered as craftsmen, and they were divided into (dispensing) opticians and optometrists. Such history of American optometrists body is analogous to that of engineers body in the viewpoints of craftsmen origin and separation from craftsmen. Engineers were also originated from educated craftsmen, but were separated from craftsmen when engineering was built up. Education system and academization of optometry was strongly influenced by physics, too. When college education of optometry started at American universities, it was not belonged to medical school but to physics department. Physics and optics were of great importance in curriculum, and early faculty members were mostly physicists. Optometry was academized in the 1920s by the college education, standardization of curriculum, and formation of the American Academy of Optometry. This is also analogous to history of engineering, which was academized by natural sciences, especially by mathematics and physics. The reason why optometry was academized not by medicine but by physics is because ophthalmologists did not have conciliatory attitudes to optometry education. Optometry became independent of physics from the 1930s to the 1940s. Optometric researches concentrated on binocular vision that is not included to discipline of physics, and faculty members who majored in optometry increased, so that optometry departments and graduate schools were established around 1940. Such independence from natural sciences after academization also resembles history of engineering. On the contrary, history of optometry was different from history of ophthalmology in several aspects. Ophthalmology had already been formed in the 18th century before development of visual optics, and was not academized by visual optics. Ophthalmologists body were not originated from craftsmen, and were not separated from craftsmen. History of optometry in the United States from the late 19th to the mid 20th century is analogous to history of engineering rather than history of medicine, though optometry is a medical discipline.