A Handy-Book of Ophthalmic Surgery for the Use of Practitioners (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Handy-Book of Ophthalmic Surgery for the Use of Practitioners

IN writing these pages it has been our aim to bring the principles and practice of Modern Ophthalmic Surgery within a small compass, to supply the wants of the busy practitioner, who may have neither time nor opportunity to read the innumerable contributions that Ophthalmic surgery and science have received within the last fifteen years.

In describing symptoms, we have limited ourselves to those which are essential for the recognition of disease in describing operations, &c., to those details which are essential for its treatment. At present it matters little to the practitioner whether glaucoma depend on a hypersecretion of the fluids of the eye, or on a rheumatic state of the circulation, or on an obscure affection of the ciliary nerves, &c. What he chiefly wants is, how to know glaucoma and, when he knows it, how to treat it.

We have not, however, thought it foreign to our scope to introduce occasionally a few representative cases, which serve to illustrate preceding descriptions.

The practice we describe is that pursued at the Ophthalmic Hospital, Southwark, where 6000 patients are treated annually.

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