Thomas Hall Shastid (1866–1947): America's forgotten historian of ophthalmology
✍ Scribed by Frank W. Newell
- Book ID
- 104646186
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-4486
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
on legal relations in ophthalmology (published in 1916 as a separate book ), and other sections describing a variety of topics. Shastid probably wrote somewhat more than ten percent of the 18 volumes. Today his biographies and history are nearly the sole items of lasting value in the Encyclopedia. Between 1918 and 1926 he wrote a number of biographies in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, which named him a collaborator in 1918, when the third series originated with Edward Jackson as editor. Between 1923 and 1926 he wrote three novels . After 1925 Shastid stopped writing biographies for the American Journal of Ophthalmology and was no longer listed on the editorial board as a collaborator. He wrote two lengthy autobiographies , a number of essays and books condemning war [8-10], abbreviated histories of ophthalmology, and a number of popular articles on ophthalmic topics .