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Definition of Hermann Snellen
1. Noun. Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1834-1908).
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1. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"Hermann Snellen (an oculist of Utrecht) etc.. spectacles, prisms and optometer.
The powerful aid to the oculist, to which reference has a just made, ..."
2. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1921)
"... C. Stellwag'von Carion (1855), Gracie and Donders (1860-62), Hermann
Snellen (1862), Ezra Dyer (1862), Giraud- Teulon (1862), and J. Green (1866-8); ..."
3. Zentralblatt für praktische Augenheilkunde (1908)
"Aber mit dem Namen von Donders ist der von Hermann Snellen unlösbar verbunden.
Man könnte beiden ein gemeinschaftliches Denkmal setzen, wo sie, wie Schiller ..."
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