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But as time went on, Rizal’s heart was not in medicine as shown by his enrolment in other courses. His medical interest was animated more by a desire to remove cataracts on his mother’s eyes; she was then close to being blind. Already losing her eyesight, Rizal’s mother could write...
In 1887, Rizal finished his eye specialization at Heidelberg under Professor Otto Becker. He used Hermann von Helmholtz’s newly invented ophthalmoscope to later treat his mother’s blindness. During his stay in Heidelberg, he wrote to his parents: “I spend half of the day studying German and...