Manual of instructions for the guidance of army surgeons in testing the range and quality of vision of recruits and in distinguishing the causes of defective vision in soldiers / by T. Longmore.

Date:
1875
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Credit: Manual of instructions for the guidance of army surgeons in testing the range and quality of vision of recruits and in distinguishing the causes of defective vision in soldiers / by T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the eye with particular regard to variations in its refrac- tive qualities, were published in a complete form by the illustrious Professor of Utrecht in his great work on the Anomalies of Accommodation and Hefraction of the Eye; and this work, concurrently with its appearance in the Dutch language, was brought within the reach of English readers by the labours of Dr. Moore of Dublin, under the direction of the New Sydenham Society. The little manual that I put forth in 1863, has been out of print for about seven years past, and I have been repeatedly asked to prepare a second edition; but with the great work of Professor Donders above mentioned, and other important works on ocular diseases by eminent ophthalmic surgeons, available for study, I have hithei*to declined to comply with the request. It continues, however, to be urged upon me, on the pleas that the manual, in consequence of its concise form, is iiseful as a help to the candidates for commissions in the army and navy medical services who have to study optical diagnosis with particular regard to the specialities of military circumstances and requirements during the courses of instruction at the Army Medical School, and that it also has some advantages for others who have not time to study larger and more advanced works on the subjects embraced in it, and I, therefore, though some- what reluctantly, now yield to the request. The objects and scope of the manual were fully explained in the introduction to the first edition, and some extracts from it are inserted as they wiU obviate the need of fresh remarks on this topic. Netley, October 1874.