University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Scope Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Docfon DE SCI-IWEINITZ'S F.xREwE1.L LECTURE

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Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology 08925 at the Jefferson Medical College, succeeding to the chair in 1896. His numerous scientific contributions have been based upon thorough prepara- tion and exhaustive study, accurate and uncanny observation, concise yet graphic diction, and charming presentation. If we add to these characteristics his past clinical experiences and associations, his high regard for any trust he may hold and an unusual ability in sensing an audience, we can understand his success and ability as a teacher. His book on Diseases of the Eye has run through ten editions. ' Dr, deSchwcinitz has exhausted the ophthalmic honors in this country and is the only ophthalmologist who was ever accorded the honor of the Presidency of the American Medical Association. In 1923 he delivered the Bowman lecture before the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the hrst time this honor has been accorded to any one on this side of the Atlantic. In 1924 he was invited to present a paper before the Societe Francaise d'Ophthalmologie, on which occasion there was presented to him a bronze plaquette. He was prompt to volunteer his services during the war and with Colonel Mosher was ordered to France in October, 1917, and later for a short time to England in order to study the methods of handling the ocular and oto-laryngologic cases and to observe the treatment of the blinded soldiers in St. Dunstans. In March, 1918, he returned to this country, where he was made Chief of the Ophth- almologic Section of the Division of llead Surgery in the oflice of the Surgeon General, and had full direction of the ophthalmic service at home. He acted as Consultant to various American hospitals and founded the School of Ophthalmol- ogy at Cwmp Oglethorpe. As a further contribution to the war he has written Section III Ophthalmology in the United States, 141 illustrations and VII colored plates, pp. 555-657 in the Medical Department of the United States Army in the VVor1d War. Vol. XI, Part 2, 1924. No one questions his outstanding position among those e1ninent in ophthal- mology and from each of his many facets there radiates a brilliancy that is as pleasing as it is sparkling and illuminating: healthful, warm and glowing, and in no sense actinic. . VVhile he has severed his connection with the Medical School, he has not been lost to medicine and ophthalmology, for he is actively engaged in practice. Still further, he has not been lost to the University, for in 1924 he was made a Professor of Ophthalmology in the Graduate School of Medicine, and in 1925 he became a Trustee of the University, in which capacity he will serve to good purpose. The Class of 1925 voted last year to present a picture of Dr. de Schweinitz to the Medical School. It .will be painted by Mr. Sciffert and we hope it will be finished in time to present formally before we graduate. ED, 27

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