Harvey J. Howard

Harvey James Howard (1880–1956) was an American ophthalmologist. He was notable for:

  • Serving as head of the Ophthalmology Department at the University Medical School, Canton Christian College in China between 1910 and 1915.
  • Inventing the Howard-Dolman apparatus for measuring the accuracy of perception of distance while serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I.[1]
  • Serving as head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Peking Union Medical College between 1917 and 1927.
  • Serving as ophthalmologist to Pu Yi, the boy emperor in the Forbidden City, between 1921 and 1925.
  • Being kidnapped, with his son, by Manchurian bandits in 1925 and escaping after ten weeks with the help of the Chinese army.[2]
  • Becoming the foundation Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Washington University School of Medicine in 1927.

Howard's research was on aviation medicine and on trachoma.

References
  1. Howard, H. J (1919). "A Test for the Judgment of Distance". Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society. 17: 195–235. PMC 1318185. PMID 16692470.
  2. http://historyhappenshere.org/node/6947%5B%5D


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