Substance of an introductory lecture to a course upon the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye : comprising a comparison of the state of ophthalmic science in Germany and England : and a recommendation to introduce the German method of instruction into the British schools / by Robert Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
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[1842]
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Credit: Substance of an introductory lecture to a course upon the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye : comprising a comparison of the state of ophthalmic science in Germany and England : and a recommendation to introduce the German method of instruction into the British schools / by Robert Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUBSTANCE OF AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE TO A COURSE UPON THE STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS, AND DISEASES OF THE EYE ; COMPRISING A COMPARISON OF THE STATE OF OPHTHALMIC SCIENCE IN GERMANY AND ENGLAND ; AND A RECOMMENDATION TO IN- TRODUCE THE GERMAN METHOD OF INSTRUCTION INTO THE BRITISH SCHOOLS. By ROBERT HAMILTON, M.D., F.R.S.E., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and one of the Surgeons of the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary. November 1842. {From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 155.) * ♦• # * * The value of Ophthalmic science is so great, that the importance of every thing directly bearing on it will at once be conceded. Accordingly, we might have availed ourselves of the present op- portunity to introduce a sketch of its past history, which might have proved alike interesting and profitable. This, however, we at present forego, and we do so, from the desire to direct atten- tion to what we consider a more important subject. As the great and ultimate end of all history, whether medical or general, should be to shed light upon our present path, and to alford guidance and instruction in our future course, we shall select one or two branches only of the history of ophthalmic science, and this not solely because they are important in themselves, but chiefly be- cause they are fertile of suggestions which, if properly improved, could not fail, we conceive, greatly to advance the interests of the science in this country. Hence, we shall avoid all consideration, of the condition of ophthalmology in remote antiquity, whether as alluded to by Herodotus, or as practised by the oculists of the A