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An encyclopedia entry for Elkanah Williams, an American ophthalmologist, is presented. Born on December 19, 1822, Williams studied medicine with Dr. Isaac Denson of Bedford, Indiana and became a private student of Dr. T. G. Richardson. He introduced the ophthalmoscope to surgeons in London, England and was the first regularly accredited physician in the U.S.

A biographical information on Dudley Sharpe Reynolds, an otologist and ophthalmologist in Louisville, Kentucky is presented. It focuses on his completion of a course in medicine at the University of Louisville. It discusses his role in the establishment of the Hospital College of Medicine at the Central University of Kentucky and reorganization of the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky. It explores his contributions as a delegate of the Kentucky State Medical Society.

A biography of Doctor Louis Edouard Desjardins of Montreal, Quebec is presented. He was born on September 10, 1837 in Terrebonne. He started his classical studies at College Masson and completed them at the Nicolet Seminary. He travelled to Europe to study ophthalmology and established an eye clinic on his return. After becoming a member of the International Congress of Ophthalmology, he founded an institute at Nazareth Asylum in Montreal specializing in the treatment of the eye diseases of the poor.

An encyclopedia entry for Frederick C. Riley, an ophthalmologist and otologist at the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Edgar M. Marbourg, an American aurist and oculist in Colorado, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for John Green, an ophthalmologist and otologist who established his practice in Saint Louis, Missouri, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Edwin R. Girvin, ophthalmologist to the Deaconess Home Hospital and Colorado Woman's Hospital, is presented.

An encyclopedia entry for Dr. Frederick E. Cheney, an American ophthalmologist who graduated in 1885 at Harvard university, is presented.

A reference entry is presented for Elisha North, specialist of eye diseases, of New London, Connecticut who was born on January 8, 1771 in Goshen in the said state.

A reference entry is presented for Henry D. Noyes, ophthalmologist, of New York who was born in 1832 in New York City and had his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and also at the New York Hospital.