1Paul U Fechner: Steps Towards Perfection: A Short History of Cataract Surgery and Lens Implantation2
3Paul U Fechner: Steps Towards Perfection: A Short History of Cataract Surgery and Lens Implantation
Paul U Fechner Dr med (Hamburg), Dipl Ophthalmology (Engl), MSc (Mich)
Hon Professor Xian University
Member of International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC)
Past Head of Eye Department of Robert Koch Hospital Gehrden—Hannover Germany ulrich.fechner@gmx.de
Late Klaus D Teichmann Dr med (Erlangen, Germany), FRCS (Canada), FRACO (Austral), Dipl ABOP (USA)
Senior Surgeon at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital Riyadh Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Member of International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC)
Andreas Tuscher Ophthalmologist
Helmstedter Strasse 59 30519, Hannover Germany
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Steps Towards Perfection: A Short History of Cataract Surgery and Lens Implantation
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To the memory of
Klaus D Teichmann
(1944–2005)
7Preface
On the 30th of August 2005 while jogging in the early morning hours on the grounds of the King Khaled Eye Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Teichmann was called to depart – a week after he had returned from a vacation in the Alps where he had finished the last lines of his part in this book.
Dr.Teichmann had held several positions at university clinics, so in Kiel, Germany, Canada and Australia, but most of his life time in Riyadh where he was Chief of the Anterior Segment Department of the King Khaled Hospital. There he found the cicumstances and time to care for the book Ocular Therapeutics, Pharmacology and Clinical Application, of which he originally was my co-author and for later editions the only responsible editor. It became his book and was his life's lasting achievement, with four editions in German, one in English and one in Chinese (with 50,000 copies printed).
Not only was Klaus an extraordinarily knowledgeable and well-read man, but he also had a fascinating personality: inquisitive, enthusiastic as teacher, unfailingly generous as colleague, warm-hearted and completely reliable. I salute an unforgettable, irreplaceable friend.
Paul U Fechner
9Foreword
Authors are grateful to Professor Dr Hans Remky, Munich, for his valuable advice and the suggestion to publish this book as a new volume of Hirschberg's History of Ophthalmology.
On the basis of a well established friendship Professor Daljit Singh of Amritsar wrote a long personal letter to the author (PUF) dealing with the present-day state of affairs of Ophthalmic surgery. It is available on Internet.