American Medical Biographies/Beard, Charles Heady
Beard, Charles Heady (1855–1916)
Charles Heady Beard, a Chicago ophthalmologist, was born in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 27, 1855, received the medical degree at the University of Louisville in 1877, and practised general medicine for six years at Cannelton, Ind. In 1883 he studied ophthalmology under Hermann Knapp (q.v.) and C. R. Agnew (q.v.) at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, N. Y., and later in London and Vienna.
Settling as ophthalmologist at Chicago in 1886, he soon was widely known as operator and writer. He was one of the surgeons at the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, oculist to the Passavant Memorial Hospital, president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology and of the American Ophthalmological Society, and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1908 he was awarded a special diploma by the American Medical Association for his excellent drawings of the fundus oculi.
Dr. Beard died at his home, 1019 East 48th St., Chicago, on Jan. 3, 1916, after a long illness.
Among the more important writings of Dr. Beard are: "Ophthalmic Surgery" (Chicago, 1910); "Ophthalmic Semiology and Diagnosis" (Phila., 1913. A vol. in Pyle's "International System of Ophthalmic Practice"); "Varieties of Blepharoplasty" (chap. xiii of Wood's "System of Ophthalmic Operations," Chicago, 1911); "Blepharoplasty" (69 pp., in vol. ii "American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Ophthalmology").