Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the influence of the Moorfields school in the evolution of British ophthalmology. In England, the development of ophthalmology depended essentially on the school of Moorfields. It was slower from the start than the Vienna school; it took half a century for it to achieve real world fame; but although it occasionally experienced decades of the doldrums, it still flourishes after 150 years, perhaps today more vigorously than ever before. The main reason was that in addition to flashes of brilliance, it always succeeded in attracting to it surgeons like William Lang. It was fortunate that at that time of flux when scientific ophthalmology was born, there emerged men at Moorfields who could not only swim with the tide but ride on the crest of the wave.
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