Ophthalmic Studies of Rizal in Paris and Heidelberg
Ophthalmic Studies in Paris and Heidelberg
Chapter 10
IN PARIS (July 1885):
Rizal stayed at Juan Luna’s studio on Boulevard Arago in the southern part of the city.
He discovered a large eye clinic ran by Louis de Wecker in Rue du Cherche-Midi(a very long street in Paris) which was only a walking distance from where Rizal was staying.
Dr. Louis de Wecker – the most famous ophthalmologist in Europe where Rizal worked with him as an assistant.
- He was not only a famous surgeon but an innovator responsible for practical advances in eye surgery, particularly in cataract. - His patients comes from all over the world, including members of the royal family.
Thought highly of Rizal and treated him almost like a son.
Rizal knew how to perform all the operations in just a few months and wrote to his family in January 1, 1885 of his progress.
Brindis Speech - the speech was Rizal’s toast to the triumph of Juan Luna’s Spolarium and Felix Hidalgo’s Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al populacho in their work of arts whose works illuminates two ends of the globe: East and West (Spain and the Philippines).
After finishing the Brindis speech, Rizal simply noted in his diary, ‘Today I delivered a speech’.
IN HEIDELBERG (Feb. 1, 1886):
Rizal’s main purposes of staying in Germany:
1. To gain further knowledge of ophthalmology (specifically on the ocular fundus).
2. To further his studies in science and languages.
3. To observe conditions of the German nation.
4. To associate with famous German scientists and scholars.
5. To finish his novel Noli Me Tangere.
Universitäts Augenklinik – what Rizal knew then as the most important centre of advanced ophthalmic research in Germany.
Dr. Otto Becker – a great German oculist where Rizal studied with him in the field of ophthalmology.
Wilhelm Kühne – associated with Becker, a physiologist who discovered several of the enzymes in the human body and was the first person to prove that
Chapter 10
IN PARIS (July 1885):
Rizal stayed at Juan Luna’s studio on Boulevard Arago in the southern part of the city.
He discovered a large eye clinic ran by Louis de Wecker in Rue du Cherche-Midi(a very long street in Paris) which was only a walking distance from where Rizal was staying.
Dr. Louis de Wecker – the most famous ophthalmologist in Europe where Rizal worked with him as an assistant.
- He was not only a famous surgeon but an innovator responsible for practical advances in eye surgery, particularly in cataract. - His patients comes from all over the world, including members of the royal family.
Thought highly of Rizal and treated him almost like a son.
Rizal knew how to perform all the operations in just a few months and wrote to his family in January 1, 1885 of his progress.
Brindis Speech - the speech was Rizal’s toast to the triumph of Juan Luna’s Spolarium and Felix Hidalgo’s Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al populacho in their work of arts whose works illuminates two ends of the globe: East and West (Spain and the Philippines).
After finishing the Brindis speech, Rizal simply noted in his diary, ‘Today I delivered a speech’.
IN HEIDELBERG (Feb. 1, 1886):
Rizal’s main purposes of staying in Germany:
1. To gain further knowledge of ophthalmology (specifically on the ocular fundus).
2. To further his studies in science and languages.
3. To observe conditions of the German nation.
4. To associate with famous German scientists and scholars.
5. To finish his novel Noli Me Tangere.
Universitäts Augenklinik – what Rizal knew then as the most important centre of advanced ophthalmic research in Germany.
Dr. Otto Becker – a great German oculist where Rizal studied with him in the field of ophthalmology.
Wilhelm Kühne – associated with Becker, a physiologist who discovered several of the enzymes in the human body and was the first person to prove that