Von Graefe

Abstract

SPEAKING of the loss of Von Graefe, whose death, at the age of forty-one, we reported last week, the Revue des Cours Scientifiques remarks that Germany has sustained a loss equal at least to the loss of a battle. Von Graefe's death was the sequel of a long consumption, during which he neither diminished his work nor took ordinary precautions. His grand discovery of the cure for Glaucoma was made when he was only twenty-six years old. The British Medical Journal thus sums up his professional worth:—