Robert Marcus Gunn (1850–1909)

Robert Marcus Gunn: The mind behind the eye

“…After a year as a house physician in Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, he traveled to Vienna in 1874, to learn from Eduard Jaeger, Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt, and Karl Stellwag von Carion. [ 1 2 ] In 1876, Gunn returned to Moorfields as a senior house surgeon and introduced whatever knowledge he had acquired, including Lister’s sterile techniques, systematic method of in-patient note taking, instrument care, and nursing regimen. He went on to become the Senior Surgeon at Moorfields, President of the Ophthalmology Section of British Medical Association, and President of the Ophthalmological Society of United Kingdom.…”