Paul Saladino· MD
in 1895 hobb uh otto hobb published a paper in which he'd reviewed 50 000 ephthalmic patient medical records and determined that macular degeneration was as rare as traumatic maculopathy and myopic maculopathy
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in 1895 hobb uh otto hobb published a paper in which he'd reviewed 50 000 ephthalmic patient medical records and determined that macular degeneration was as rare as traumatic maculopathy and myopic maculopathy
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1914 text doesn't have anything about macular degeneration in it — 1927 sir stuart duke elder one of the most prominent ophthalmologists you know in history published his first comprehensive textbook of ophthalmology 1927. macro degeneration wasn't mentioned