Practical observations on the principal diseases of the eyes: illustrated with cases / Translated from the Italian ... with notes, by James Briggs.

  • Antonio Scarpa
Date:
1806
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Credit: Practical observations on the principal diseases of the eyes: illustrated with cases / Translated from the Italian ... with notes, by James Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ge vit) themfelves to the mere confideration of fuch affections, without any regard to furgical difeafes generally; as if the diforders of the eye had fome- thing in their nature totally diftin@ from thofe of other parts; or as if there were no analogy between fimilar difeafes affecting different parts of the body. It has been frequently imagined likewife, that the operations which are per- formed upon the eye require greater fkill or dexterity, than thofe which are executed upon other parts of the body. And it has been rather upon fome fancied improvement in the me- thods'of operating, than upon any acknowledged peculiarity in the nature of the difeafes which affect this organ, that thofe who have termed _ themfelves oculifts, have generally refted their pretenfions. Whether there be, however, any greater difficulty in thefe operations, than in thofe which are executed upon the body gene- rally, thofe who have had the moft extenfive op- portunities of performing both, are beft ale to determine. It ought alfo tobe recollected, that the term dexterity can fcarcely be applied with prepriety to furgical operations, in the fame wana fenfe
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