Manuel Uribe Troncoso
Manuel Uribe Troncoso[a] (17 June 1867 – 21 January 1959) was a Mexican ophthalmologist.
Manuel Uribe Troncoso was born in Toluca, State of Mexico, on 17 June 1867. He graduated with a degree in medicine from the National University of Mexico (UNM).[1] A joint founder of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society, he was a renowned expert on the physiology and diseases of the eye. In 1943 President Manuel Ávila Camacho appointed him one of the founding members of the Colegio Nacional.
Uribe Troncoso died in New York City, United States, on 21 January 1959.[1]
Inventions
- A monocular self-illuminating gonioscope
- A binocular corneal microscope
- A "Demonstration Eye" for refraction anomalies
Publications
- Por tierras mejicanas (1919)
- Internal Diseases of the Eye and Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy (1937)
- A Treatise of Gonioscopy (1947)
References
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Uribe and the second or maternal family name is Troncoso. The surnames are also given as "Uribe y Troncoso", with the coordinating conjunction y ("and").
- ^ a b "Manuel Uribe Troncoso". Integrantes. El Colegio Nacional. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
External links
- Rodríguez de Romo, Ana Cecilia. "Manuel Uribe Troncoso: Biografía" (PDF). Metropolitan Autonomous University.
- Neri Vela, Rolando (August 2006). "Manuel Uribe y Troncoso: A Mexican Ophthalmologist and His Contributions to Medicine". Proceedings of the 40th International Congress on the History of Medicine. ISHM.
- Jorge Meryán García. "La Oftalmología en México de 1893 a 1993". Primer centenario de la Sociedad Mexicana de Oftalmología (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
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