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Hugo Magnus
1842–1907
A 19th-century German eye specialist who also loved the history of medicine, he wrote with the curiosity of both a scientist and a storyteller. His work helped connect modern ophthalmology with the long record of how people had understood vision and eye disease in earlier centuries.
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Superstition in Medicine
by Hugo Magnus
About the author
Born on May 31, 1842, in Neumarkt in Schlesien and later based in Breslau, Hugo Magnus was a German ophthalmologist and historian of medicine. Sources consistently describe him as a physician who studied at the University of Breslau and went on to build a career in eye medicine while also taking a strong interest in the history of his field.
Magnus is especially remembered for writing about ophthalmology not only as a medical science but as a subject with a deep past. That mix of clinical knowledge and historical research gave his books a distinctive character, making them useful to readers interested in both eye disease and the development of medical thought.
He died on April 15, 1907, in Breslau. A suitable confirmed portrait image was not available from the source page I checked, so no profile image is included here.