A. de Montméja Pathologie iconographique du fond de l'oeil 1870

traité dophthalmoscopie ...

Illustrated pathology of the fundus of the eye. French.

Paris : Lauwereyns, 1870.
Publisher (initial place): France Extent: 48 p., x leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Lane Catalog Record

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The ophthalmologist Edouard Meyer (1838-1902), a student of von Graefe, collaborated with Dr. A. de Montméja on Traité des opérations qui se pratiquent sur loeil (1870-71). This was first work on ophthalmic surgery to be illustrated with photographs. "It contains the first series of photos of actual operations in a surgery textbook with 22 close-up shots of operations for strabismus, cataract, irdectomy, canthroplasty, etc. (almost certainly performed on cadavers). In 1869 Dr. Montméja founded the first journal devoted to medical photography in 1869: Revue médico-photographique des hôpitaux de Paris."(Albert) Previously Dr. de Montméja had collaborated with his colleague at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, Alfred Hardy, on the first photographic atlas of skin diseases published in France in 1868. For the treatise on ophthalmic surgery certain details had to be hand-painted on the negatives since the exposures using glass-plates were too slow to capture subtle motions.

—J. Norman, 2006