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An ophthalmic surgeon operates on the eye of a patient who is strapped to a chair. Line engraving.

M0013238: Portrait of Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870)

M0013252: Portrait of Arthur von Hippel (1841-1917)

A man has a joke with his optician. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

M0013472: Portrait of James Mackenzie Davidson (1858-1919)

M0016656: Portrait of Hans Adler (fl.1880)

M0013209: Portrait of John Dalrymple (1804-1852)

M0012077: Portrait of Joseph Georg Beer (1763-1821), Viennese ophthalmologist

A doctor holding a sharp surgical instrument in which to operate on a cross-eyed yokel, in a room with other patients. Etching by "Sly Dick".

Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

Light out of deep darkness : a pioneer's adventures in Egypt, 1903-1923, and his campaign against the plague of ophthalmia : a biography of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan CBE, MD, FRCS / Michael MacCallan.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.114 Ophthalmologists #2

Albrecht von Graefe, sein Leben und Wirken / von E. Michaelis.

Pioneer preventive social medicine in British Malaya / by A. Viswalingam.

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Miscellany: United States of America, 19th-20th centuries

Light out of deep darkness : a pioneer's adventures in Egypt, 1903-1923, and his campaign against the plague of ophthalmia : a biography of Arthur Ferguson MacCallan CBE, MD, FRCS / Michael MacCallan.

Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.114 Ophthalmologists #2

Albrecht von Graefe, sein Leben und Wirken / von E. Michaelis.

Pioneer preventive social medicine in British Malaya / by A. Viswalingam.