Chirurgia parua. Guidonis. Cyrurgia Albucasis cũ cauterijs [et] alijs instrumentis. Tractatus de oculis Iesu Hali. Tractatus de oculis Canamusali / [Guy de Chauliac].

Ophthalmology instruments, eye growths, a cataract operation and other eye defects. Line engraving by R. Parr, 1743-45.

Saint Odilia as protector against eye-pain and rat infestation. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.

Siomine : tetrayoduro de metenamina / Pitman-Moore Company ; agentes para la isla de Cuba: Kaufmann y Quintana.

Thomas Colledge attending a patient at his eye hospital in Macau. Aquatint by W. Daniell, 1834, after G. Chinnery.

A fly on sugar crystals

An English rural apothecary's shop in which women apothecaries produce eye-lotion from their own urine. Watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, ca. 1800 (?).

Illustration from Ming Chinese ophthalmology text, Ms copy

Jupiter waves a wand at a woman looking at herself in a mirror, while a travelling merchant of spectacles and a blind man walk by; allegory of the conscientious use of sight. Engraving by P. de Jode.

Royal College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London: the interior of the Hall, during the examination of a candidate. Coloured aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin, 1808.

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