An introductory lecture on the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the eye / [Richard Middlemore].

  • Richard Middlemore
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1839
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Credit: An introductory lecture on the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the eye / [Richard Middlemore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than this: that there existed, even at that time, a strong conviction on the minds of the more respectable and better informed members of our profession of the absurdity, not to say impossibility, of wholly separating the practice of the various departments of surgical science, and of their sense of the impropriety of seeking practice by the adoption of im- _ posing and attractive titles. It was an honourable and salu- tary feeling — a feeling which by no means obscurely evinced that they ardently cherished the character and dignity of their profession, and were unwilling to sanction any conduct or custom, which had, as they conceived, the slightest ten- dency to lower its respectability, impair its usefulness, or impede its advancement. The works of Par&,* BARBETTE,t WISEMAN,{ ETTMULLER,§ PurMANNUS, || BIDLoo,{] Meap,** PLATNER,tt HeistEr, tt Turner,§§ and many other distin- guishéd physicians and surgeons of former times, sufficiently attest that they also possessed a practical acquaintance with ophthalmic maladies, and attended to them, in their day, in common with other diseases. However, as a general rule, the treatment of diseases of the eye was in the hands of empirics, the habits and manceuvres of whom are pretty well illustrated by the conduct of the Taytors, many of whom were formerly in great repute. The most distinguished of these, after having cured all the curable in this country, * The Works of that famous Chirurgeon, Amprose Parry. Translated by T. Johnson. London, 1649. + Opera Omnia. Geneva, 1683. + Several Chirurgicall Treatises. London, 1676. § Opera Omnia Theoretica et Practica. London, 1685. || Chirurgia Curiosa. London, 1706. € Opera Omnia Anatomico-Chirurgica. Lugd. Batav., 1715. ** Medical Works. London, 1762. ++ Institutiones Chirurgie Rationalis. Venet., 1747. t{ Institutiones Chirurgie. Amsterdam, 1739. §§ The Art of Surgery., London, 1736. ~
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