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Edward Greely Loring was an American ophthalmologist and was one of the earliest advocates of the ophthalmoscope. He began his medical degree in Italy and finished his studies at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1864. He served as a surgeon at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Loring’s most important contribution to medicine was his improvement of the ophthalmoscope. He employed a greater range of lenses that sharpened the image of the fundus. He also wrote numerous papers about diseases of the eye. His magnum opus was his book entitled: A Text Book on Ophthalmoscopy, the first volume of which was published in 1886.
