Carl Ferdinand von Arlt
Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (April 18, 1812 – March 7, 1887) was an Austrian ophthalmologist born in Ober-Graupen, a village near Teplitz (Teplice) in Bohemia.
He earned his doctorate in Prague in 1839, and later became a professor of ophthalmology in Prague (1849-1856) and Vienna (1856-1883). His son Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (1842-1917) was also an ophthalmologist.
Arlt published a prodiguous number of books and articles concerning diseases of the eye, and collaborated with Albrecht von Graefe and Franciscus Donders on the journal Archiv für Ophthalmologie. He was the first physician to provide proof that myopia (short-sightedness) is generally a consequence of excessive length of the sagittal axis of the eye.[1] He is also credited for conducting annual eye clinics in impoverished areas.
The following eponyms are named after Arlt:
- Arlt's syndrome: a contagious eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis.
- Arlt's operation: transplantation of eyelashes back from the edge of the eyelid for treatment of distichiasis.
- Arlt's line: Linear scar present in Sulcus subtarsalis during Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
- Arlt's triangle: keratic precipitates distributed in a wedge-shaped area on the inferior corneal endothelium.[2]
Selected publications
- Die Krankheiten des Auges (Diseases of the Eye) 3 volumes, (1851−1856)
- Operationslehre (Surgical Lessons) In Saemisch/Graefe Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde Volume 3, (1874)
- Meine Erlebnisse. (Autobiography), Wiesbaden 1887, Otto Becker, pupil of Arlt, completed his autobiography
References
- Who Named It?; Carl Ferdinand von Arlt
- KHURANA, AK. "Comprehensive ophthalmology"
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