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Inflamed bloodshot eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.

A woman removing something from a man's eye while another man looks on. Etching by W. Geikie.

A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while a man and other women stand by. Oil painting after Louis-Léopold Boilly.

A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

A sheet of eye examinations and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, and diagrams of the eye surgery with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.

Inflamed eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.

At Mr. Brett's, an apothecary, at the upper-end of Prescot-Street, in Goodmans-Fields, London, liveth a chirurgion, who infallibly cures all sorts of squint, or blear eyes : in a short time, without pain or danger, in either age of infancy, tho' of long continuance.

Traité d'optique : considérée dans ses rapports avec l'examen de l'oeil / par G. Sous.

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Eye - Examination

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At Mr. Brett's, an apothecary, at the upper-end of Prescot-Street, in Goodmans-Fields, London, liveth a chirurgion, who infallibly cures all sorts of squint, or blear eyes : in a short time, without pain or danger, in either age of infancy, tho' of long continuance.

A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

Inflamed eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.

Traité d'optique : considérée dans ses rapports avec l'examen de l'oeil / par G. Sous.

A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while a man and other women stand by. Oil painting after Louis-Léopold Boilly.

Eye - Examination

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At Mr. Brett's, an apothecary, at the upper-end of Prescot-Street, in Goodmans-Fields, London, liveth a chirurgion, who infallibly cures all sorts of squint, or blear eyes : in a short time, without pain or danger, in either age of infancy, tho' of long continuance.

A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations, diagrams to show the effect of lenses and diagrams of the eye with a numbered key. Wood engraving.

Inflamed eye defects: three figures. Coloured stipple engraving by H. Adlard.

Traité d'optique : considérée dans ses rapports avec l'examen de l'oeil / par G. Sous.

A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while a man and other women stand by. Oil painting after Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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