Ђорђе П. Нешић : (1873-1959)

Abstract

Djordje Nešić was born in Sabac on June 15 (28), 1873. He completed elementary school in Loznica and high school in Sabac. In 1890 he went to Moscow to study medicine and at the same time attended classes of mathematics and physics. He received a sound technical education there which later on stood him in good stead in the construction and development of ophtalmological instruments and aids. Nešić published many professional and scientific papers. He had a rich clinical experience and first became known in the world for his paper on hemeralopia which he had thoroughly studied on diseased soldiers who had been through the Albanian crossing ordeal and suffered deprivation. He devoted a considerable number of his works to the design, construction and application of his gigantic electromagnets. He developed a number of models which were efficiently applied in ophtalmology. Many of his works deal with the diagnosis and treatment of various eye diseases and Nešić also devoted great attention to various surgical problems. He was also well known for his efforts in the field of the control and treatment of trachoma which he did for a full sixty years. He lived to see that disease eradicated in Serbia. Towards the end of his career Nešić undertook a method of therapy with biogenic stimulators in cooperation with the eminent Professor Filatov from Odessa. That Professor Dr. Nešić was a pillar of ophtalmology in Serbia is also attested to by the fact that his students named the Clinic which he had founded the "Professor Dr. Djordje Nešić Eye Diseases Clinic" .