Robert Walter Doyne
Robert Walter Doyne was a British ophthalmologist.
Doyne studied medicine in Oxford, Bristol and St George's Hospital in London. In 1886, he founded the Oxford Eye Hospital, and in 1909 became the first president of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress.
In 1899 Doyne discovered colloid bodies lying on Bruch's membrane that appeared to merge, forming a mosaic pattern that resembled a honeycomb. Afterwards this disorder was referred to as "Doyne's honeycomb choroiditis". Today this condition is known to be a rare hereditary form of macular degeneration that results in progressive and irreversible loss of vision. Other names for the disorder are: "macular drusen", "malattia leventinese", "dominant radial drusen" and "Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy".
In 1889, he was the first physician to describe angioid streaks, a disorder that affects Bruch's membrane, the innermost layer of the choroid.
Two years after his death in 1916, a prized distinction in British ophthalmologic medicine known as the "Doyne Memorial Lecture" was established.
