The proper provision for teaching ophthalmology in the medical schools / by Edward Jackson.

  • Edward Jackson
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[1912]
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    OPHTHALMOLOGY IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS * EDWARD JACKSON, M.D. DENVER Ophthalmology, always a distinct department of med- icine, embraced a great mass of clinical facts, as shown in the books of Mackenzie and Desmarres, before the work of Helmholtz, Graefe and Donders caused its rapid extension in the middle of the nineteenth century. Wal- ton, Lawrence, Bowman, Sichel, Stellwag and other able men had found it an ample field for a life time of study. The routine use of the ophthalmoscope and the test lenses enormously increased the extent and practical importance of this branch of medicine. It inspired able men of the younger generation with an interest that made it their life work. Jaeger, Arlt, Schweigger, Argyll Eobertson are only specimen names from those of the host who, fifty years ago, saw in ophthalmic science the highest development of medical science, and in ophthalmic practice the highest, most exact applica- tion of medical art. Williams, Agnew, Noyes and Nor- ris brought the inspiration of the new. ophthalmology to America. Hughlings Jackson and Clifford Allbutt took the eye-mirror to throw light on obscure realms of internal medicine. Still active are Hirschberg, Euchs, Haab, Landolt, Motais, Nettleship, Swanzy, John Green and hundreds of others -who have devoted long and busy lives to a science and art that gave ample scope to all their powers. They and their students after them have continued to extend the boundaries of ophthalmic science and art in every direction. By the labor of these leaders has been developed mod- ern ophthalmology, the proper teaching of which we are to discuss. The catalogue of Hirschberg's collection of its literature occupies 336 octavo pages. The list of books, transactions, monographs and journal articles appearing in the year 1911 takes 151 pages and includes 3,506 titles. They constitute in the aggregate between i-o!?0^'1 in the Section on Ophthnlmology of the American Medical Ci'S jS5nen'l912 Sixty-Third Annual Session, held at Atlantic f/ ) ^
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