The British Optical Association ( BOA ) was founded in 1895 as the first professional body for ophthalmic opticians ( optometrists ) in the world.

* V < sub > 1 </ sub >, the ophthalmic nerve, first division of the trigeminal nerve

It is a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of ophthalmic acid or ophthalmate, which was first isolated from calf lens.

He conducted eye disease surveys across the top end as an ophthalmic registrar and co-founded " RedANT " – Australia's first mobile eye disease database, earning a Master of Public Policy from Charles Darwin University in 2000.

** Piroska Rakoczy was the first in Australia to apply molecular biological techniques in ophthalmic research.

The ophthalmic artery ( OA ) is the first branch of the internal carotid artery distal to the cavernous sinus.

After leaving his music career behind when he quit Jigsaw in 1979, Tony Campbell went back to his first occupation, ophthalmic engineering.

Wilson's first success came during a business trip to Akron, Ohio, where he was introduced to Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon and Oxford Group member who was unable to stay sober.

The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was LT Tamara Schnurr, as a member of the 2001 team.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard ( 8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001 ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

Upon returning to South Africa in 1958, Barnard was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital, establishing the hospital's first heart unit.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.

The first reported clitoridectomy in the West was carried out in 1822 by a surgeon in Berlin on a teenage girl regarded as an " imbecile " who was masturbating.

Hippocrates was the first documented chest surgeon and his findings are still valid. View of the Askleipion of Kos, the best preserved instance of an Asklepieion.

Around the same time, in ancient India, the Indian surgeon, Sushruta, was the first to make use of the magnet for surgical purposes.

* 1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

It was a Scottish surgeon in the Royal Navy, James Lind who first proved it could be treated with citrus fruit in experiments he described in his 1753 book, A Treatise of the Scurvy, though his advice was not implemented by the Royal Navy for several decades.

William C. DeVries ( born December 19, 1943 ) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation ( on Barney Clark ), using the Jarvik-7 model.

The first was Thomas Weeding, a fellow doctor, and surgeon of the Glatton, one of the other ships in the convoy.

* May 17 – Lovisa Årberg, first woman doctor and surgeon in Sweden ( d. 1881 )

* Dominique-Jean Larrey, chief surgeon of the Grand Armee of France, creates the first ambulance wagons specifically designed as ambulances.

* November 13 – Scottish surgeon James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine in Manchester, which leads to his study of the phenomenon that he ( Braid ) eventually calls hypnotism.

The first American plastic surgeon was John Peter Mettauer, who, in 1827, performed the first cleft palate operation with instruments that he designed himself.

In 1898, Jacques Joseph, the German orthopaedic-trained surgeon, published his first account of reduction rhinoplasty.

There are no requirements for cosmetic procedure specialization, so doctors can legally perform cosmetic procedures without first being certified by their country's plastic surgeon board.

The case brought against Roozrokh was the first criminal case against a transplant surgeon in the US, and resulted in his acquittal.

It was through his association with the surgeon Wilfred Trotter that Jones first heard of Freud ’ s work.

Simpson's system of taxonomy, however, was far from the first ; taxonomies / descriptions for the classification of intersexuality were developed by Italian physician and physicist Fortuné Affaitati in 1549, French surgeon Ambroise Paré in 1573, French physician and sexology pioneer Nicolas Venette in 1687 ( under the pseudonym Vénitien Salocini ), and French Zoologist Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire in 1832.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

For the first three weeks, the ship skirted up the east coast of Great Britain, then turned westward.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The first charter of human rights by Cyrus the Great as understood in the Cyrus cylinder is often seen as a reflection of the questions and thoughts expressed by Zarathustra and developed in Zoroastrian schools of thought of the Achaemenid Era of Iranian history.

* 1678 – Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

He was a son of king Alaric II and his first wife Theodegotho, daughter of Theodoric the Great.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.

He made the first seven scenes of the Great Passion in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the Holy Family and saints.

* 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.

* 1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

It is mainly notable for being perhaps the first purpose built office building in Great Britain.

When the team first emerged in the nineteenth century it represented one nation-state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelise Northumbria.

Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.