Text-book of ophthalmology / by Ernst Fuchs ; authorized translation from the 12th German edition, completely revised and reset, with numerous additions specially supplied by the author and otherwise much enlarged by Alexander Duane.

  • Ernst Fuchs
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[1924]
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Credit: Text-book of ophthalmology / by Ernst Fuchs ; authorized translation from the 12th German edition, completely revised and reset, with numerous additions specially supplied by the author and otherwise much enlarged by Alexander Duane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • • scattered through all parts of the book, may be mentioned the remarks on tuberculin and vaccine therapy, the visual field and color testing, the mapping of scotomata and the blind spot, squirrel plague and eel's blood conjunctivitis, Samoan conjunctivitis, peculiarities of conjunctivitis in the Near East, extragenital gonococcus infection, inclusion blennorrhoea, the etiology of trachoma, blastomycetic dermatitis, superficial linear keratitis, sclerosis of the cornea, the etiology of iritis, sclerosis of the chorioid, sup¬ purative chorioiditis, Elliot’s summary of glaucoma theories, retinitis stellata, retinitis exudativa and angiomatosis retinae, the different forms of retinal degeneration, the varieties of accommodative troubles other than paralysis, and the newer operations. The translator trusts that these changes, so largely made on his own responsibility, will not in any way serve to detract from the many excel¬ lencies of a book which, because of its author’s unrivalled experience, knowl¬ edge, and judgment, has for twenty-seven years remained a model of its kind. Alexander Duane. 139 East Thirty-Seventh Street, New York,
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