RT Journal
T1 EUrope in advance of us—a tribute to hermann knapp
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD May 18
VO 305
IS 19
SP 2017
OP 2017
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.588
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.588
AB 
The recent death of Dr. Hermann Knapp has occasioned a reflection not complimentary to the American people. Before he began his American career he had studied in several European universities, and had established a dispensary and hospital for eye diseases which is now a part of the University of Heidelberg, at which he taught four years. The science and the art of ophthalmology in this country were indeed a puny pair of twins until 1868, when Knapp brought us the ophthalmoscope which his teacher, von Helmholtz, had invented seventeen years before, and which von Graefe—of whom Knapp was also a student—had applied to eye diseases. Thus, Knapp's advent among us initiated the special work in orbital practice by which such beneficent results are now every day in evidence.