Edilberto de Souza Campos, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Lagarto, Sergipe State 04 September 1883 - Rio de Janeiro 02 April 1971)
DEVELOPED NEW TECHNIQUES
Novo meio de conservar os instrumentos cortantes. Soc. Med. Bras. Med. 06 June 1925
Método simples e prático de esterilizar instrumentos cortantes. Brasil Medico 23(1):291, 1925
Ciclodiálise transcorneal, simplificação da operação de Heine. Brasil Médico 55(26):445-51, 1941
Nova orientação na operação de pterygio: ressecção sub-mucosa. Brasil Medico 50:42, 1936
Nova orientação na operação de pterygio. II. Bol. Acad. Nac. Med. 108 (3):754, 1936
OTHERS
Contribution á l’etude des complications du pterygion. La Clin. Ophtalm. (1909)
His son, Evaldo de Mendonça Campos, ophthalmologist (Rio de Janeiro 16 August 1915 – Rio de Janeiro 16 July 2003)
Authored over 80 works
Designed a hand with four fingers to access the visual acuity of children before the age of six and seven (Evaldo Campos hand)
Reported the second case of electric cataract in the world (after Soviet I.S. Chepurina 1941)
Cataract produced by electric current. Rev. Bras. Oftalm. 3:21, 1944
Cataract from industrial electricity. Am. J. Ophthalm. 28:111, 1945
OTHERS
Effect of retrobulbar anesthesia on ocular tension and vitreous pressure. Am. J. Ophthalm. 33(1), 1950