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A New Eye Speculum
sold by surgical instrument makers, which have constantly come prominently to my notice daring the performnace of operations on the eye, and which, after considerable experience of the same, have forced me to try and effect a remedy for them. It is with that object in view, that I have devised an instrument, which I venture to bring before the notice of the profession, as having, in my humble o...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1855
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)54393-2