Volume 1

The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology / edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators.

Date:: 1913-1921

Credit: The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology / edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$INITIALS USED IN VOLUME 1, TO IDENTIEY INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS* A. A.—Adolf Alt, ]\I. D., M. C. P. and S. 0., St. Louis, ]\Io. Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; Author of Lectures on the Human Eye; Treatise on Ophthalmology for the General Practitioner; Original Contrihutions Concerning the Glandular Struc- tures Appertaining to the Human Eye and its Appendages. Editor of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. A. C. C.—Alfred C. Croftan, Ph. D., M. D., Chicago, III. Author of Clinical Urinology and of Clinical Therapeutics. Member of the General Staff of the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago. Formerly Physician- in-chief at St. Mary’s Hospital; Physician to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; Physician to the Chicago Post-Graduate Hospital; Pathologist to St. Luke’s Hospital. Late Professor of Medicine at the Chicago Post Graduate Col- lege and the Chicago Polyclinic; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons (University of Illinois); Member of the American Therapeutic Society. A. S. R.—Alexander Sands Rochester, M. D., Chicago, III. M. D. Jefferson Medical College; Ex-Chief, San Lazaro Contagious Hospital, Manila, P. I.; Adjunct Ophthalmologist to St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago. C. A. 0.—Charles A. Olivier (Deceased). Joint Editor of A System of Diseases of the Eye; Writer of numerous mono- graphs on ophthalmic subjects. C. F. P.—Charles F. Prentice, M. E., New York City, N. Y. President, New York State Board of Examiners in Optometry; Special Lec- turer on Theoretic Optometry, Columbia University, New York. Author of A Treatise on Ophthalmic Lenses (1886) ; Dioptric Form^dce for Combined Cylindrical Lenses (1888); A Metric System of Numbering and Measuring Prisms {the Prism-dioptry) (1890); The Iris as Diaphragm and Photostat (1895), and other optical papers. C. H. B.—Charles Heady Beard, M. D., Chicago, III. Surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary (Eye Department) ; Oculist to the Passavant Memorial Hospital and the North Star Dispensary (Chicago); Member and Ex-president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society; Member of the American Ophthalmological Society, Etc. Author of Ophthal- mic Surgery, (1910); and of Opthalmic Semiology and Diagnosis, (1913). D. II.—D’Orsay Hecht, ^I. D., Chicago, III. Assistant Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Northwestern University Medical School; Consulting Neurologist to the Cook County Institutions for the Insane at Dunning, Illinois; Attending Neurologist to the Michael Reese and St. Elizabeth’s Hospitals, Chicago. *A complete list of the contributors to this work will appear in the final volume.$