A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, treatise on ophthalmology / revised and enlarged by H. Houston.

  • Littell, S (Squier), 1803-1886.
Date:
1840
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A manual of the diseases of the eye, or, treatise on ophthalmology / revised and enlarged by H. Houston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. We beg to state to our readers, that on Diseases of the Eye tliere is no work which has fallen into our hands that has so decided a claim to the patronage of the practical man as the small manual whose title we have placed at the head of this article. Of the original we shall say no more than briefly transcribe the remarks of the talented Reviewer in the British and Foreign Medical Review for January, 1838:— <• Our limits will not allow us to notice the small work of Dr. Litttll in detail; but, after an attentive perusal of the whole volume, we confidently recommend it to the senior as well as junior members of the profession. It is replete with information, vet so terse in style and compressed in bulk, as at once to entice and repay perusal. We agree in most points with the authors pa.;hological inductions and practical precepts. The language is free from any tinge of Americanism, the descriptions are short but comprehensive, while the treatment is characterized by great ]»nTdence; on the one hand, avoiding the charge of inactivity or feebleness, on the other, never risking the more serious results ^ of chronic mischief and broken health from excessive depletion or ciie depressing effects of violent mercurial courses; of which faulcs some of our own countrymen are not entirely innocent.