Manuel Uribe y Troncoso

Manuel Uribe y Troncoso (17 June 1867, in Toluca, Mexico – 21 January 1959, in 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.

For other people named Manuel Uribe, see Manuel Uribe (disambiguation).

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)

References
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