Veterinary and comparative ophthalmology / by Eugène Nicolas ; translated, edited and enlarged by Henry Gray.

  • Nicolas, Eugène, 1867-1929.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Veterinary and comparative ophthalmology / by Eugène Nicolas ; translated, edited and enlarged by Henry Gray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fact, the opportunity of putting into form my personal re- searches in the numerous bibliographic documents, which I had for some time been accumulating. I found in our annals a number of interesting facts, but it is in reality in the Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Augenheil- kunde that veterinary ophthalmology should have its scientific basis. This journal of comparative ophthalmology, of which only seven small volumes appeared from 1882 to 1903 before it ceased publication,* was founded and edited by two masters of human ophthalmology, Professors Berlin and Eversbusch, who were joined later by professors of veterinary schools on the other side of the Rhine, among others J. Bayer, contains much valuable information, and without diminishing the credit of those who have written before on the diseases of the eyes of animals, one may say that veterinary ophthalmology originated with that journal. That great monumental work in the form of the Encyclopedic frangaisc d'ophtahnologie has afforded me numerous, more especially experimental, facts of which I have profitably availed myself whenever they have appeared to me to be capable of shedding some light on questions on which care- ful clinical observations are wanting. In trying thus to bring together everything that could serve for building up such a new science, as is veterinary ophthalm- ology, it has been my ambition to fill up that lacuna which has existed in our literature since 1824 when Urbain Leblanc’s work appeared. I leave it to my confreres to say whether I have succeeded in my endeavours to be of use to them. I am deeply indebted to Professor Lagrange and Dr. Valude, editors, and M. Doin, publisher, of the Encyclopedic frangaise d'ophtahnologie as well as to Messrs. Cadiot and Almy for having so willingly placed some of their beautiful blocks at my disposal; and my thanks are due to my courteous pub- lishers, MM. Asselin and Houzeau. E. NICOLAS, Epinal, (Vosges). *[This has since been replaced by the creation of the Archiv fiir vergleichende Augenheilkunde.—Trans.]