Julius Hirschberg

Julius Hirschberg (18 September 1843 – 17 February 1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian.

[1][2] In 1875, Hirschberg coined the term "campimetry" for the measurement of the visual field on a flat surface (tangent screen test) [3] and in 1879 he became the first to use an electromagnet to remove metallic foreign bodies from the eye.

[4] In 1886, he developed the Hirschberg test for measuring strabismus.

[4] His series Geschichte der Augenheilkunde (History of Ophthalmology), nine volumes written from 1899 to 1917, is considered by some to be one of his greatest achievements.

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