Auguste Cuénod (15 June 1868, in Saint-Legier-sur-Vevey – 8 February 1954, in Hammamet) was a Swiss ophthalmologist, known for his work in the fight against trachoma.

He studied medicine in Lausanne and Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1894.[1][2] Afterwards, he relocated to Tunis, where he subsequently established an eye clinic. In Tunis, he worked closely with Charles Nicolle at the Pasteur Institute.[3]

In 1923, with Nicolle and Victor Morax, he founded the Ligue internationale contre le trachome (International League against Trachoma).[3] He was also a founding member and president of the Société tunisienne des sciences médicales (Tunisian Society of Medical Sciences).[2]

Published works

In 1900, with Albert Terson, he published Atlas-manuel d'ophtalmoscopie ("Atlas and manual of ophthalmoscopy"), a French edition of Otto Haab's Atlas und Grundriss der Ophthalmoskopie und ophthalmoskopischen Diagnostik. His other works in ophthalmology include:

• Bactériologie et parasitologie cliniques des paupières, 1894 – Clinical bacteriology and parasitology of the eyelids.
• Le trachome; historique, clinique, recherches expérimentales et étiologie, thérapeutique, prophylaxie (with Roger Nataf, 1930) – Trachoma, historical, clinical, experimental research and etiology, treatment, prophylaxis.
• Biomicroscopie de la conjonctive (with Roger Nataf, 1934) – Biomicroscopy of the conjunctiva.

In the field of botany he published a book on Tunisian flora, titled Flore analytique et synoptique de la Tunisie (1954).[4]

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