Straub W
University of Marburg, Dept. of Ophthalmology, FRG.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1990 Feb;74(1-2):21-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00165661.
Wilhelm Fabricius, born in Hilden, near Düsseldorf, (Fabricius Hildanus) lived from 1560 until 1634. He had been working as physician and surgeon in Switzerland. He left a voluminous literature posthumously edited as 'Opera observationum et curationum medicochirurgicarum'. It is a compendium of 600 extremely interesting pathological cases, some of them in form of letters to close colleagues. Ophthalmology is represented by quite a big chapter, one of them reports a successfully performed exenteratio orbitae because of a tumor. Further parts, for example, describe special ophthalmic twizzers with certain fixing mechanisms and some kind of an operation table equipped by an adjustable prop for the operator's arm. Fabricius points out that after perforation of the eye the loss of aqueous humour is not consequently noxious. He, too, demonstrates the treatment of a symblepharon and describes amongst other therapies the first successful magnetic extraction of an iron foreign body out of the eye in ophthalmic history.
威廉·法布里修斯出生于杜塞尔多夫附近的希尔登（法布里修斯·希尔达努斯），生活于1560年至1634年。他曾在瑞士担任内科医生和外科医生。他身后留下了大量文献，经整理编辑为《医学与外科观察及治疗作品集》。这是一部包含600个极其有趣的病理病例的汇编，其中一些是以写给亲密同事的信件形式呈现的。眼科在其中占了相当大的篇幅，其中一章报道了一例因肿瘤成功实施的眼眶内容剜除术。其他部分，例如，描述了具有特定固定机制的特殊眼科镊子以及某种配备了可调节支撑装置以供操作者手臂使用的手术台。法布里修斯指出，眼球穿孔后房水流失不一定有害。他还展示了睑球粘连的治疗方法，并在其他治疗方法中描述了眼科史上首例成功地从眼中磁性取出铁异物的案例。
