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...
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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...
26. This was the Filipino chemist Anacleto del Rosario, whom Rizal rightly praises. 27. This refers doubtless to Rizal himself, who competed in an open contest for Spaniards and Indians, of the Liceo Artistico-Literario de Manila, and of whom such an occurrence is related. He was awarded ...
On Sunday, it was announced that Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, and Rizal would again be placed under modified enhanced community quarantine. Members of the medical community later released a statement to remind Duterte of the same thing: that the virus –and not the medical community ...