Alexander Duane
Alexander Duane (September 1, 1858 – June 10, 1926) was an American
Malone, New York
.
He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (today the medical school of
Hermann Jakob Knapp (1832–1911), and in 1884 started his ophthalmological practice in New York. He was with the U.S. Navy during the Spanish–American War and World War I, and for a brief period of time taught classes at Cornell University
.
Duane is remembered for contributions made in the study of the
accommodation and squint. He also performed extensive analysis involving movement of the extraocular muscles
. In 1897 he published a highly regarded treatise titled "A new classification of the motor anomalies of the eye".
Duane translated Austrian ophthalmologist
Duane's retraction syndrome
" and "Duane's prism test for latent squint".
References
- Ophthalmology Hall of Fame, Alexander Duane (biography)
- Obituary from PubMed (Originally published in the Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society by Kent Weeks)
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