Tropical Ophthalmology

Tropical Ophthalmology

This latest book from the pen of Col. Elliot is a very valuable one. and should be in the hands of every practitioner at all interested in eye disease in the tropics. It is the first book' of its kind published, and contains not only the results of the valuable experience of Col. Elliot, but also a mass of information hitherto only available in journals, many of them foreign, and inaccessible t...

Lectures on Tropical Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

Ophthalmology.

Ophthalmology

?Myopia is an error of refraction, due to elongation of the-yeball, and its conditions vary with its degree. When it does n?t exceed four or five dioptres it is of little disadvantage, excePt to those who wish to enter the public services, or whose 0ccupations require particularly good far vision ; but as the amount increases, it causes more and more damage to the 'gnt, until in its high degree...