The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870 : a contribution to ophthalmologic history and biography; an address delivered in abstract before the section of ophthalmology of the American Medical Association, June 4, 1907. Revised and enlarged. Illustrated by selected portraits and cuts / by Alvin A. Hubbell.

  • Hubbell, Alvin A. (Alvin Allace), 1846-1911.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870 : a contribution to ophthalmologic history and biography; an address delivered in abstract before the section of ophthalmology of the American Medical Association, June 4, 1907. Revised and enlarged. Illustrated by selected portraits and cuts / by Alvin A. Hubbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wiirdemann’s Ophthalmology (1904), are great store- houses of American as well as foreign contributions of varying but, in the aggregate, of immense scientific and practical value. The history of ophthalmologic progress since 1870 is, in fact, written in these volumes. Auxiliary to these records have been those excellent summaries of current ophthalmologic progress, first so ably made by Hays and continued by Jackson in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, and afterward similarly presented by Noyes and Bull in the New York Medical Journal, by Thomson, Gould, Oliver, Posey and others in Sajous’ Annual by Hansell, Clark, Reber, Pyle and others in Saunders' Year-Book, by Wood in the Practical Medicine Series volumes, and by Jackson and de Schweinitz in their Year-Book. Besides this form of literature there have been the treatises, systems, text-books and manuals on diseases of the eye, together with monographs and essays on spe- cial subjects, beginning with the great work of Noyes, in 1890, which was an outgrowth of a former treatise published by him in 1881, and ending with those of the last year or two, the authors of which are so well known as to need no mention. Some of these works, according to the purpose for which they have been written, are not excelled in correctness of style, evidence of learning, or comprehensiveness of matter, bv similar works in any language. Supplementary to all of this there has been the inval- uable indexes of all ophthalmologic, as well as other medical literature, found in the Index Catalog of the Surgeon-General’s library and in the Index Medicus.