Sir Frederick Treves and Sympathetic Ophthalmia

Sir Frederick Treves and sympathetic ophthalmia.

S ir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) is best known as the doctor and protector of the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick (1862-1890) (Figure 1). Broadway plays, a movie, and several books have described Treves’ relationship with this horribly deformed man who is now considered to have had Proteus syndrome rather than the earlier hypothetical diagnosis of neurofibromatosis. Proteus syndrome is a rare dis...

Sir Frederick Treves: the extra-ordinary Edwardian

produce, which seems appropriate, somehow. As well as parts taken up with the catalogue of the records, manuscripts and books of the Society, there is an account of its history from 1819-1989 by Palmer. Although brief, this is excellent and includes the history of the collection itself and its relationship to other material in Glasgow and London. Several institutions have Hunter bits and, in a ...

Sir Frederick Mott

The cause of the Association for Mental Welfare, no less than the scientific aspect of psychiatry, has suffered a great loss by the death of Sir Frederick Mott. This is no place to deal in detail with the purely scientific side of his activities, but some knowledge of their general tendency is required in order to assess the great influence that he exercised on our conceptions of the treatment ...

Sir Frederick Willis

Sympathetic Ophthalmia

Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare bilateral, diffuse granulomatous panuveitis that occurs following penetrating trauma or intraocular surgery to one eye, the exciting eye. The fellow non-traumatized sympathizing eye also shows similar inflammatory response usually with mutton-fat KPs suggesting involvement of autoimmune response [1]. Though the time from ocular injury to onset of SO was sai...