A treatise on the diseases of the eye / by W. Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, William, Sir, 1783-1867.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye / by W. Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and pathology of the eye; the descriptions of several affections not treated of in the original; an account of the catoptric examination of the eye, and of its employment as a means of diagnosis; a description of recently invented instruments for illuminating the retina, and of some new methods of examining the interior structures of the eye; two hundred and forty-three illustrations, some of them from original drawings, and a very full index. There have also been introduced in the several chapters on the more important diseases, the results of our experience in regard to their treatment, derived from more than a third of a century's devotion to the subject, during all of which period we have been attached to some public institution for the treatment of diseases of the eye. The additions are inclosed in brackets [ ]. ISAAC HAYS. Philadelphia, December, 1853.