The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen.

  • Sheen, Alfred.
Date:
1890
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    PUBLISHED BY JOHN WRIGHT AND CO., BRISTOL. Cloth, 8vo, with 39 Original Diagrams. Price 3/6, post free. O PH TH A LMO LOGICAL PRISMS: AND THE DE- CENTERING OF LENSES. A practical guide to the Uses, Numeration, and Construction of Prisms and Prismatic Combinations, and the Centering of Spectacle Lenses. By Ernest E. Maddox, M.D., Ophthalmic Surgeon, New Town Dispensary, late Syme Surgical Fellow, Edinburgh. CONTENTS. Part I.—Prisms—A, Their Simplest Properties: Geometrical, Optical, Clinical B, Marking the Apex—C, Prismetry—D, Planeness of Surfaco —E, Adjustment in Trial Frame—F, Temporary Trials. Part II.—Decen- tering of Lenses. Part III.—Localization. Part IV.—Analysis of Spectacles. Part V.—Outline of the chief Clinical Applications of Prisms A, In the Consulting Room—B, In Spectacles. Appendix. Extracts from Press Notices. “In this attractive little volume, the author describes certain methods and aids to pre- cision in the use of prisms which he has worked out during the last few years, and which are Ukely to prove of practical value in ophthalmic practice. . . . Well illustrated by simple diagrams. ... Dr. Maddox's book is well illustrated, and, with the exception of a few somewhat obscure passages, clearly written. We think there are few ophthalmic surgeons who will not learn something by its verusnU’-ophthalmic Reclew. “We have no doubt that this book will prove very useful as an introduction to a subject which is too much neglected in our text books. . . . The writer has done well in calling attention to this subject.—British Medical Journal. “This little book wili supply a real want . . . should be considered as necessary to the student as a treatise on optics.”—tendon Medical Recorder. Likely to be of considerable use in the elucidation of a difficult subject . . We commend it to any who are engaged in ophthalmic work and to those who are interested in the physical aspects of optics.”—Brietol Mcdico-Chir. Journal. The author writes with a full knowledge of his subject.”—Health. Dr. Maddox writes with authority upon this rather difficult subject.”- Monthly Homo;,. subiet? °1 “ £ ^ Pe 0Ur StUdent wU1 be dellehtcd to find that a complicated who treated, not in a way that is caviare to the general, but in such a manner that he who runs may road. . . . No work which covers the same ground with the same com- pleteness hus hitherto been placed upon the market. . . . The treatise will form an admirable complement to the ordinary books on eye diseases.”—Z/o»p. Gazette. Dr. Maddox's book may really be said to supply a want. . . . The information conveyed !«eCdChisa^ubjnect'B,entlflu,“d bc‘“'‘>«'idence of coming from one who has thoroughly mas- Med. Jo urn 1 ’ ' ' ' bav0 much pleasure in recommending this little work.”—Edin. “A little book of very considerable value to the ophthalmic practitioner ri„„„ „„ n a nutshell all the information necessary to deal with such cases. . ' We have much pleasure in recommending the book.”-Gla*g. Med. Journ. V “ h
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