Carlos Ribeiro da Silva Lopes (1906-1997) graduated in Medicine and Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 1930 and took his Ph.D. in 1936. After his Ph.D. he was Assistant of the Faculty for two periods of five years (1931-42). In 1942, he was hired as first assistant of the 4th group (Legal Medicine) in the Faculty of Medicine. In the same year he was nominated Head of Service of the Institute of Legal Medicine. In the run for Extraordinary Professor of the 4th Group (Legal Medicine, History of Medicine and Professional Deontology) of the Faculty of Medicine of Porto he was designated in 1944, when he was rendered by the School Council the regency of the discipline of History of Medicine and Professional Deontology - in consequence of the legal impossibility of Professor Luís de Pina - which he conducted until the 25th November 1949, and again in February 1952. He was definitively re-conducted to the function of Extraordinary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in 1948.
From 1955 to 1959, he directed the course of Deontology. From November 1959, through jubilation by Professor Francisco Coimbra, he conducted the discipline of Legal Medicine and Forensic Toxicology. He was voting member of commissions in exams of Normal Histology and Embryology, General Pathology, History of Medicine, Psychology, Deontology and Legal Medicine, President of commissions in exams of Radiological Semiotics and arguer in various dissertations of graduation. He directed the Legal Medicine Institute of Porto starting 1960. Regarding his relation with the course of Legal Medicine, he was professor of Scientific Police, Deontology and Medical Jurisprudence and Legal Medicine. He was in charge of the Legal Medicine section of the magazine "Gazeta Médica Portuguesa" (Lisboa), member of the International Academy of Legal Medicine and Social Medicine, responsible for various disciplines in courses of the Polícia Judiciária do Porto and voting member in the Council of Legal Medicine of Porto.
Due to jubilation by Professor Luís de Pina and until his assistant Maria Olívia Rúber de Meneses took her Ph.D., he was once again responsible for the History of Medicine and Professional Deontology disciplines and director of the Museum of History of Medicine Maximiano Lemos. He possesses a large medical bibliography.
The Room Carlos da Silva Lopes shows instruments and equipment of Ophthalmology of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the suture and paracentesis needles, the bistouries and knifes (Beer, Graefe, Jaeger, Desmarres), the eyelid retractor (Galezowsky, Hirsberg, Landolt, Liebreich, Panas, Weber), the characters of Snell, the cauteries, the chisels and hooks, the curettes, the elevator-irrigators, the reflection mirrors, the Bowman's probe, the lancets, the ophthalmoscopes, the tweezers, the syringes, the scissors, the sets composed by these instruments or by systems of lenses. Most instruments from the 19th century were manufactured by Charrière, Robert and Collin, Lüer, Mathieu and W. Mathews.
In the same room we can see the ophthalmology equipment and devices offered by Professor Castro Correia (n. 1928), that belonged to the service he directed: test scales, trial lenses case, binocular magnifiers, operation room lamps, electrical magnets, Aimak projection perimeter of the Maggiore type, automatic perimeter, scotometer of Beyne, angiography-retinography device, sinoptophore, sucking device for cataract extraction, laser photocoagulator, among others.
