Scottish ophthalmologist, born in 1837, Edinburgh; on January 3, 1909, Gonday near Mumbai, India died. Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson was one of the first surgeons to focus entirely on the ophthalmology field, and his name was always associated with the phenomenon he described in his pupil in his back. Graefe's scalpel: Designed for cataract extraction, it is now historic. Argyll Robertson Syndrome: A common symptom of neurosyphilis, particularly back pain, and other diseases of the central nervous system where the pupil is small and slow or not responding at all, but retains response to regulation and convergence.