Illustrations of some of the principal diseases of the eye : with a brief account of their symptoms, pathology, and treatment / by Henry Power.

  • Meneses, Henry Power
Date:
MDCCCLXVII [1867]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of some of the principal diseases of the eye : with a brief account of their symptoms, pathology, and treatment / by Henry Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. During the last ten years, I have been in the habit of taking drawings of almost every interesting case that came under my observation at the Eoyal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. At first rude enough and mere sketches, I at length found that with pains and care I was able to make tolerably faithful transcripts of the various forms of disease that presented themselves; and having collected in this way some hundreds of drawings in water-colours, I thought I might make them of service to the profession by the aid of lithography. I have been obliged, however, materially to diminish the number of illustrations I originally intended to publish, on account of the great and unavoidable expense attendant on their being printed in colours; and also, from finding as I proceeded that, notwithstanding the excellence and ability of the artists employed by Messrs Hanhart, of Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, by whom the first six plates were printed, and also by Mr M'Farlane, of Edinburgh, to whose care I committed the rest, chromo-lithography was scarcely capable, without an expenditure totally disproportioned to the end in view, of expressing the fine shadings of colour which enable the practised eye to distinguish various yet similar forms of disease, and which are so easily attainable by the brush.
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