Pierre-Félix Lagrange (22 January 1857 – 22 April 1928) was a French
ophthalmologist
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Early life
Pierre-Félix Lagrange was born on January 22, 1857, in Soumensac, département
lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.University of Bordeaux
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It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are al ...
in
Bordeaux
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Career
Lagrange was a professor with the faculty of medicine at Bordeaux. He was a specialist in the study and treatment of ophthalmic disorders, including eye tumors,
strabismus
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,
refraction
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anomalies and
glaucoma
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. He is remembered for introducing a surgical technique that was a combination of an
iridectomy
An iridectomy, also known as a surgical iridectomy or corectomy, is the surgical removal of part of the iris.Cline D; Hofstetter HW; Griffin JR. ''Dictionary of Visual Science''. 4th ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston 1997. sclerectomy for treatment of glaucoma. This
surgery
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was later referred to as a "sclerectoiridectomy" or "Lagrange's operation".
With Emile Valude (1857–1930), Lagrange was co-publisher of the ''Encyclopédie française d'ophtalmologie'' (1903–10).IDREF.fr (bibliography)
Death
He died on April 22, 1928. He was seventy-one years old.
Selected writings
* ''Etudes sur les tumeurs de l'oeil, de l'orbite et des annexes''. Paris, G. Steinheil, 1893.
* ''Rapport sur le diagnostic et le traitement des tumeurs de l'orbite''. Paris, 1903.
* ''Atlas d'ophtalmoscopie de guerre''. 1918
References
* ''This article incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the
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