Paul Silex

Paul Silex was a German ophthalmologist. He is known for contributions made involving war-related blindness.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Berlin and Breslau, obtaining his doctorate in 1883. Afterwards he served as an assistant to ophthalmologist Ludwig Laqueur in Strasbourg, followed by several years as an assistant to Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger in Berlin.
He received his habilitation in 1890, becoming an associate professor in 1897. In Berlin he opened a private clinic at St. Maria Victoria-Krankenhaus.

Associated eponym

"Silex's sign": A pathognomonic sign of congenital syphilis, indications being radial furrows about the mouth.

Selected writings

Compendium der Augenheilkunde, 1899 - Compendium of ophthalmology;.Über das Sehvermögen der Eisenbahnbeamten, 1894 - On the vision of railway officials.Neue Wege in der Kriegsblindenfürsorge, 1916 - New approaches to war-blind welfare.