Henrique Guedes de Mello, Brazilian ophthalmologist (Recife 06 April 1857 – Rio de Janeiro 08 November 1934)
Authored over 100 works
The first report of retinal familial glioma in the international literature
Glioma da retina familial e hereditária. Bol. Mem. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de J. (1896)
Proposed a variant of Graefe-Bunge evisceration technique
Da panophtalmite e seu tratamento pela evisceração do globo ocular modificada. Brazil medico (1895-6)
INSTRUMENTS
Un blepharostat (1890)
Sur Trois nouveaux instruments d’ophthalmologie (diplopimetre, blépharostat et chromatoscope). União Medica 32(4), 1884
Um diplopimetro. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. Rio de Janeiro 3:365-8, 1888
HONORS
He was Professor Edmund Landolt’s clinical assistant
Correspondent Member of many foreign medical associations