C. H. S. Sattler was
the son of Hubert Sattler, a Professor of Ophthalmology in universities in
Giessen,
Erlangen,
Prague
and finally
Leipzig.C. H. S. Sattler became Professor
of Ophthalmology and Director of the Ophthalmology clinic at the
Elisabeth
Hospital
in Konigsberg in
East Prussia.In 1916 he presented the case of a
patient who had been fitted using a blown Muller shell and began using Zeiss
lenses in 1931.In 1935 Sattler gave
a paper on the use of contact lenses and described the objective signs of
intolerance to contact lens wear, particularly 'the haze like tobacco smoke'
that clouded the vision after a few hours of lens wear, now known as Sattler's
Veil but first described by Fick.