A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye : containing a new mode of curing cataract without an operation, experiments and observations on vision, also on the inflection, reflection, and colours of light together with remarks on the preservation of sight. And on spectacles, reading-glasses, &c / By John Harrison Curtis.

  • Curtis, John Harrison, 1778-approximately 1860.
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye : containing a new mode of curing cataract without an operation, experiments and observations on vision, also on the inflection, reflection, and colours of light together with remarks on the preservation of sight. And on spectacles, reading-glasses, &c / By John Harrison Curtis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Acuteness of sight and hearing in savage tribes . • 50 Comparative anatomy of the Eye in mammalia . .52 Eye of the opossum and whale compared . .58 Birds . . . • .59 Dissection of an ostrich . . . . 61 Amphibia . . . . • . ib. Fishes . . . • 62 Insects ... . . .64 Vermes . • • • • 65 CHAPTER II. OF THE DISEASES OF THE EYE. Diseases of the external Eye . . .67 Description of Plate II. . . . ib. Ophthalmia . . . . ib. Symptoms and Causes of . 68 Purulent ophthalmia in infants . . .72 Schmidt’s lotion . . . 77 Beer’s ointment for ophthalmia tarsi . .79 Remarks on ophthalmia considered as contagious . ib. Account of a purulent ophthalmia which prevailed on board a French slave-ship . . .80 Purulent ophthalmia at a boy’s school in Yorkshire . 81 Epiphora . . . . .82 Ulceration of the cornea . . 85 Specks and opacities of the cornea . .88 Beer’s collyrium . . . . . 89 Graef’s liniment . . . .90 Beer’s ointment . . . . . ib. Pterygium . . . . . ib. Staphyloma . . . . . 92 Iritis . . . . . 96 Beer’s treatment of . . . . 102