Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Berlin and Breslau, obtaining his doctorate in 1883.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Berlin and Breslau, obtaining his doctorate in 1883.
He is known for contributions made involving war-related blindness. Afterwards he served as an assistant to ophthalmologist Ludwig Laqueur (1839-1909) in Strasbourg, followed by several years (1884-1897) as an assistant to Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger (1830-1905) in Berlin. He received his habilitation in 1890, becoming an associate professor in 1897.
In Berlin he opened a private clinic at Saint Maria Victoria-Krankenhaus.
"Silex"s sign": A pathognomonic sign of congenital syphilis, indications being radial furrows about the mouth.