Prevalent Diseases of the Eye; A Reference Handbook, Especially Adapted to the Needs of the General Practitioner and the Medical Student
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To Dr. A. Maitland Ramsay he is under obligation for permission to use several admirable illustrations from his Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye.
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Theobald was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1846, the son of Dr. Elisha Warfield Theobald and Sarah Frances (Smith) Theobald. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Nathan Ryno Smith, and after the death of his father when he was five Theobald lived with his grandfather.
Education
He was educated at the preparatory school of George Carey, studied in his grandfather's office, and at the same time pursued his medical course at the University of Maryland, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1867.
Career
In 1870, after working with his grandfather for several years, he went abroad for eighteen months to specialize in ophthalmology and otology. In Vienna he studied the eye with Ferdinand von Arlt, Eduard Jaeger, and the ear with Leopold Maximilian Politzer; later he worked with William Bowman, George Critchett, and Jonathan Hutchinson at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital.
In 1871 he returned to Baltimore to practise his specialties. He was the leading spirit in establishing the Baltimore Eye and Ear Dispensary in 1874, and in 1882, together with some colleagues, he founded the Baltimore Eye, Ear, and Throat Charity Hospital, with which he kept up an active association until within a few years of his death.
From 1889 to 1925 he was ophthalmic surgeon to the Johns Hopkins Hospital; from 1896 until 1912, clinical professor of ophthalmology and otology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; from 1912 to 1925, clinical professor of ophthalmology; from 1925 until his death, professor emeritus of ophthalmology.
In spite of a very large private and hospital practice, he was a prolific and forceful writer. A collection of one hundred and eighteen reprints of his articles covers a wide range of subjects of ophthalmological and otological interest. Those on the eye include descriptions of instruments that he devised, surgical procedures, clinical discussions, case reports, discussions of the relation of diseases of the eye to general disease, studies in the prevention of blindness, and reports upon new medicines and apparatus.
His genius is memorialized by his method of treating closure of the tear ducts and by his invention of lachrymal probes, which he described in 1877. He introduced boric acid to ophthalmologists, and in 1884, shortly after the discovery of the anesthetic properties of cocain, he wrote concerning his clinical experience with this drug. In 1892 he described the use of the electro-magnet for removing metallic particles from the eye. In 1906 he published his Prevalent Diseases of the Eye, an eminently practical volume of over five hundred pages. In addition to his articles on ophthalmological subjects, he wrote several papers upon the ear.
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Membership
He was keenly interested in the activities of medical societies, and served as president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (1900) and as president of the American Ophthalmological Society (1910).
Personality
Throughout his career he took time for the courtesies of life, and he possessed to a rare degree the gift of friendship. Slightly but strongly built, he was exceedingly good to look upon.
Connections
On April 30, 1867, at Bristol, R. I, he married Caroline Dexter de Wolf, by whom he had two daughters and one son.