Lectures on diseases of the eye / By John Morgan; edited by John F. France.

  • John Morgan
Date:
1848
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Credit: Lectures on diseases of the eye / By John Morgan; edited by John F. France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    already highly estimated, the Editor aeeepted the undertaking. A three-fold duty thus devolved upon him :—he owed to the original writer, that his statements and opinions, nay, as far as possible his exaet words, should be preserved:—to the readers, as in likelihood many might be younger members of the profession, that any obscurity or ambiguity should be made clear, any inadvertent omission be supplied : — and to all whom therapeutical error might haply condemn “ ca- rere luce et pati carcerem tenebrarum,” that any injunction of equivocal expediency should be re¬ viewed and weighed. The Editor trusts that the succeeding pages may prove his faithful observance of these requirements. The additional matter consists of a biographical notice of the Author; which, however imperfect, will probably be acceptable to those readers, who either cherished his friendship, or admired his talents or his worth. It originally appeared in the Medical Gazette and the Gentleman's Magazine, and is reprinted Avith the corrections which its first hasty preparation had rendered desirable. Notes ancillary to the text have also been inserted : they are mainly of a practical bearing, and brief; for had a more comprehensive form been given them, the bulk of the work must have been augmented, and its essential character as a practical compendium of Ophthalmic Surgery have been violated. Conciseness and perspicuity are qualities, which, if duly combined, can scarcely in didactic composition be cultivated too