Manuel Uribe y Troncoso

Manuel Uribe y Troncoso (17 June 1867, Toluca, Estado de México 21 January 1959, New York City, United States) was a Mexican ophthalmologist. A joint founder of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society, he was a renowned expert on the physiology and diseases of the eye. In 1943 President Manuel Ávila Camacho appointed him one of the founding members of the Colegio Nacional.

Inventions

  • A monocular self-illuminating gonioscope
  • A binocular corneal microscope
  • A “Demonstration Eye” for refraction anomalies

Publications

  • Por tierras mejicanas (1919)
  • Internal Diseases of the Eye and Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy (1937)
  • A Treatise of Gonioscopy (1947)
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