Rizal as a Doctor

He wanted to treat his mothers eyes that has cataracts.

Why Dr. Jose Rizal choose to become a doctor?

Opthalmologist

• University of Santo Tomashe studied medicine, agriculture, surveying,

and philosophy and letters.• 1879-1882

• Central university of madrid• 1882-1884• He received his licentiate in Medicine in 1884

Schools

Rizal chose to specialize in ophthalmology and worked in the eye clinic of Dr. Louis De Wecker, a famous French ophthalmologist.

He introduced ophthalmoscopy into France and advanced ocular surgery. He modified cataract and strabismus surgery, devised a new method of enucleation, advocated sclerotomy for the treatment of glaucoma, and was the first to use the termfiltration.

He worked for Dr. De Wecker from November 1885 to February 1886

Training as an opthalmologist

Louis De Wecker

In February 1886, Rizal moved to Heidelberg.

Augenklinik (Eye Clinic) of Otto BeckerBecker (1828-1890) was professor of

ophthalmology at the University of Heidelberg from 1868 to 1890 and helped make this department one of the best in Germany.

Rizal spent the next 6 months working as assistant to Becker.

Otto Becker

On his way back to de Wecker's clinic in Paris in 1887, Rizal took time to travel through Europe to learn from and visit with some additional prominent ophthalmologists and scientists.

Among the ophthalmologists he visited, probably the most well-recognized today is Ernst Fuchs, whom he visited and worked with for a short time in Vienna.

In Berlin Rizal met Rudolph Virchow, the"father of pathology," who invited him to become a member of the Berlin Anthropological Society.

Ernst Fuchs

Rudolph Virchow

Rizal practiced ophthalmology, mainly in Calamba (August 1887-February 1888)

Hong Kong (November 1891-June 1892),while in exile in the town of Dapitan (July

1892-July 1896). In Calamba in 1887, Rizal finally began to

fulfill his lifelong dream of caring for his mother's eyesight.

In Hong Kong in 1892, he successfully removed the cataract from his mother's left eye.

Practice of opthamology

Business Card of Rizal in Hongkong

There are three animal species named after Rizal as he used to collect these animals while exiled in Dapitan.

Draco Rizali (Wandolleck) - a specie of flying dragon

Rachophorous Rizali (Boetger) - a unknown specie of toad

Apogonia Rizali (Heller) - a small beetle.

http://www.joserizal.ph/ta02.html

Rizal really only had 2 patients: his mother and his country.

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