Is the human eye changing its form under the influence of modern education? / Edward G. Loring.

  • Loring, Edward G. (Edward Greeley), 1837-1888
Date:
1878
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Credit: Is the human eye changing its form under the influence of modern education? / Edward G. Loring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unnecessarily minute, I shall, at the slightest hint, properly communicated, at once retire from my post. I must have space for the consideration of a class of maladies which I consider of vast consequence to the surgical student, and if this be denied me, I have, I repeat, no alternative but to retire, for I am not blessed with the art of condensing my observations on this extensive and important subject in one or two lectures of an hour's duration, and am naturally unwdlling to adopt a practice which every conviction of my judgment tells me would be, in its results, to disgrace myseif and to deceive you. It may be doubted whether the affections of the eye afford matter for a separate course of lectures. In Germany, where diseases of the eye are far more attentively studied, and better and more extensively known than in this country, no doubt whatever is entertained on this point. The extent of the subject, says Mr. Lawrence, may be estimated from the circumstance that Professor Beer, of Vienna, occupied, in his course of instruction, ten months, giving five or six lectures weekly.* But, Gentlemen, whatever may be my anxiety to assist your studies, unless you are thoroughly determined to apply to the subject with great zeal and diligence, unless you are prepared to renounce many of the prevailing customs of society (which so greatly tend to embarrass genins and encourage presuming ignorance), it w'ill be wholly without effect. I call upon you then, at the outset, to be prepared to practice much of self-denial; to renounce many ])rofillcss pleasures and trifling amusements; and to consecrate your- selves to the service in which you have embarked with the most entire devotedness. But let me not deceive you — 1 am supi)0sing that in Oput cihdiini. J'ligo 5.
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