Excerpt from Ophthalmic Surgery and Treatment: With Advice on the Use and Abuse of Spectacles
Soon after having become connected with Guy's Hospital I felt that much time and unnecessary labour might be saved both to the students and to myself by a book embracing the practical portions of modern ophthalmology.
The advances made within the last twelve years in ophthalmology, and recorded in essays, periodicals, &c., in this country and abroad, by far exceed in practical importance those made in any other branch of medical science.
I shall consider this book to have attained its object if to the student it renders ophthalmology intelligible and useful, and if to the practitioner it affords a faithful record of the present state of this branch of medical science.
The subdivision of the matter contained in the book into chapters according to the structures involved has been adopted more because such is usually the case with books of this kind than because it is the most practical or physiological classification. One based upon the functions of the different structures of the eye, or one which uses the terms employed by patients to express the nature of the disturbance of their vision, &c., as the key to facilitate diagnosis, would perhaps have been preferable. Great care, however, has been taken in the construction of an index, so as to embody all those words and sentences which may assist the reader, from the statements of his patient, to discover the nature and treatment of the individual case.
No references to works on ophthalmological subjects are given in the different chapters, neither are the names mentioned of those whose merit it is to have advantageously influenced the state of ophthalmology by invention of instruments or by original researches.
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