An account of the structure of the eye : with occasional remarks on some disorders of that organ, delivered in lectures at the theatre of Surgeons-Hall / By Thomas Gataker.

Gataker, Thomas, -1769.

Date:: 1761

Credit: An account of the structure of the eye : with occasional remarks on some disorders of that organ, delivered in lectures at the theatre of Surgeons-Hall / By Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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