Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Fisher NORRIS
NORRIS, William Fisher, ophthalmologist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 6, 1839; son of Dr. George Washington and Mary Pleasants (Fisher) Norris; grandson of Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (Fox) Norris, and of William Wharton and Mary Pleasants (Fox) Fisher. He was a descendant of Isaac (1671-1735), the immigrant (1693), and Mary (Lloyd) Norris, and of Thomas and Mary (Jones) Lloyd. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1860, and M.D., 1861; was resident physician of the Pennsylvania hospital, 1861-63; assistant surgeon in the U.S. army, 1863-65; was for over a year surgeon in charge of Douglas General hospital, Washington, D.C., and was brevetted captain for meritorious service during the war. He was an eye specialist in Philadelphia, 1865-73; clinical professor of the diseases of the eye in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1873-91; honorary professor of ophthalmology, 1888-91, and in 1891 became professor of ophthalmology. He was a surgeon to the Wills eye hospital, 1872-91; a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and president of its ophthalmic section in 1894; a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, and its vice-president in 1877; a member of the Academy of Natural Science; of the American Philosophical society, and of the American Ophthalmological society, of which he was vice-president in 1879 and president, 1885-89. He was married, July 4, 1873, to Rosa C., daughter of Hieronymus Buchmann, and after the death of his first wife he married, June 12, 1899, Annetta Culp, daughter of George A. Earnshaw of Gettysburg, lieutenant-colonel of the 138th Pennsylvania volunteers. He is the author of various papers on intraocular tumors, hereditary atrophy of the optic nerves, association of gray degeneration of the optic nerves with abnormal patellar tenden reflexes, ivory exostoses of the orbit, administration of ether in Bright's disease of the kidneys, etc., and of: Medical Ophthalmology in Pepper's System of Medicine; Vet-such über Hornhaut Entzündung, with Prof. S. Stricker, Vienna (1869); A Contribution to the Anatomy of the Human Retina (1893); A TextBook of Ophthalmology, with Dr. C. A. Oliver [p.85] (1893); A Contribution to the Anatomy of the Human Retina, with Dr. James Wallace (1894). He also edited: A System of Diseases of the Eye, by American, British, French, Dutch and Spanish authors (4 vols., 1897-1900), in which he contributed the article on cataract. He died in 1901.
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