Medical report of the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary, No. 12, Queen Street, for 1850 / by Robert Hamilton and Benjamin Bell.

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Medical report of the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary, No. 12, Queen Street, for 1850 / by Robert Hamilton and Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEDICAL REPORT OF THE EDINBURGH EYE INFIRMARY, No. 12, QUEEN STREET, FOR 1850. BY ROBERT HAMILTON, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.R.C.S., AND BENJAMIN BELL, Esq., F.R.C.S. [from the monthly journal of medical science, for aprii, 1851.] The experience of each passing day must convince every intelligent practitioner that the healing art, like most others, is a progressive one. This observation, clear beyond dispute, concerning the sciences upon which medicine and surgery are based, and especially in relation to the knowledge which the microscope is revealing, is applicable to almost every branch of professional pursuit, so that the medical man who would neglect this important truth, and disregard these rapidly accumulating discoveries, is speedily arrested, like a stranded bark, whilst others, pursuing a different course, soon leave him far behind. No department of our science presents perhaps more striking and palpable demonstrations of this fact than ophthalmic surgery ; and the slight review we now proceed to give of the contents of the accompanying table1 will afford many illustrations thereof. Much has been done within the last few years to¬ wards the elucidation of the delicate structures of the different parts of the eye, investigations which must be familiar to many of our readers, and among which the recent researches of Professors Todd and Bowman are perhaps the most im¬ portant.2 1 For which we are indebted to our excellent clerk, Mr Robertson. 2 See Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man. By Dr Todd and William Bowman, F.R.S. Also, Lectures on the Parts Concerned in the Operations of the Eye, &c. By William Bowman, London. 1849. SUTHERLAND AND KNOX, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.