Comment on: An Eye as window to the Brain

I read with the interest article by Danesh-Mayer.1 She wrote that James Lydston in 1895 gave “possibly the first published reference to the optic nerve as a potential clinical and scientific window into the central nervous system”. This is the good occasion to mention the earlier contributor to this area, Polish ophthalmologist Ksawery Gałęzowski [1832-1907] who in 1866 published the whole textbook on this topic2 and coined a term cerebroscopy for ophthalmoscopy of optic disc to diagnose the central nervous system (CNS) disorders.
Source: American Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research