Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal
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Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800 - 1879), a prominent physician and Geheimer Sanitätsrath (privy medical counsellor), wrote on the human eye and on optics. He was interested in environmental impacts on eyesight, including light quality, and argued that eyeglasses should be tailored to occupation. He also examined a variety of eyewashes and tinctures, and reportedly invented eye occlusion therapy, currently used for correction of strabismus and amblyopia. He was married to Karoline Friederike Heine, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker, and is the father of Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal was a German neurologist and psychiatrist from Berlin. He was the son of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal and Karoline Friederike Heine and the father of Alexander Carl Otto Westphal...

 and grandfather of Alexander Carl Otto Westphal
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal
Alexander Carl Otto Westphal was the son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal and Clara Mendelssohn and the grandson of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal....

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