A guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye : with an outline of their medical and operative treatment / by James Dixon.

  • Dixon, James, 1813-1896.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye : with an outline of their medical and operative treatment / by James Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. So great an amount of talent and industry lias of late years been devoted to the investigation of Diseases of the Eye, that a new volume on the subject appears to require a few words of intro- duction. Notwithstanding all the assistance the student may derive from systematic treatises and pictorial illustrations, close personal examination of a large number of patients can alone enable him to recognise those delicate changes which the tissues of the Eye present under various morbid conditions. Specially to direct his attention to these changes, and to explain the best methods of observing them for himself, is the primary object of the following pages. I have, therefore, chiefly dwelt on the description of outward phenomena; for, inasmuch as the pecu- liar susceptibility of a patient must cause endless modifications of his subjective symptoms, a full con- sideration of these would have expanded my volume.