Aaron S. Green, Louis D. Green, and Floyd H. Cook case reports on eye diseases

Aaron Samuel Green was born in 1879 in Riga, Latvia. He moved to the United States as a child, and graduated from the University of Colorado in 1908. He was an ophthalmologist who invented instruments for eye surgery. He also co-founded the Greens' Eye Hospital in San Francisco, CA, which was built in 1928. He was one of the first American doctors to adopt the technique of the corneal transplantation operation. He practiced medicine with his brother, Louis David Green, and with Colonel Henry Smith in India. Green also provided ophthalmic care to the prison population in San Quentin Prison. He wrote for medical journals and lectured in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He had three children (Nancy, Patricia, and Alan) and three sisters. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage while on vacation in 1941 at the age of 61.

Louis (or Lewis) David Green, brother of Aaron Green, was also an ophthalmologist. The two emigrated from Latvia and practiced medicine together, co-founding the Greens' Eye Hospital in San Francisco, CA in 1928. Like his brother, Louis D. Green also worked as an ophthalmologist at San Quentin Prison. The brothers worked together to develop tools for and write publications on opthalmic care. Louis D. Green died in 1937.

Floyd Harrison Cook was born on November 24, 1881, in Wheeler, NY. Cook served in World War I, 1917-1919. Cook served as a Lieutenant in the Third Naval District. He was called to duty on April 17, 1918 under instruction of The Naval Medical School in Washington, DC. Outside of his military service, Cook practiced ophthalmology in Middletown, NY. Around 1930 he moved to Akron, OH, where he continued to practice medicine. Cook was married to Cora Belle Baker, and in 1938 in Ohio he married Mary Helen Burns. He had two children, Eulala and Floyd. Cook registered for the draft at age 58 during WWII in 1942. He died in 1949 after his second stroke.

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New York Times. (1941, September 10). Dr. Aaron S. Green: Ophthalmologist inventor of Eye surgery instruments. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1941/09/10/archives/dr-aaron-s-green-i-ophthalmologist-inventor-of-eye-surgery.html