An essay on the malformations and congenital diseases of the organs of sight / by W.R. Wilde.

  • Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876.
Date:
1862
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    To Germany, the library of the civihzed world, and the centre of every thing that concerns the eye in particular, we naturally look for information upon this curious subject;— here, in the land of the Sommerrings, and Meckels, the Ar- nolds and Webers,of Treviranus, Walther, and Rosenmuller, who have all contributed so much to the normal anatomy of the eye, we turn to its literature, and not in vain, for some light to cheer us in this dark, and hitherto unexplored path. But until very lately, the knowledge of the Germans themselves, upon the congenital defects of the eye, was, like that of the English, scattered through the periodicals of the last forty years. At the commencement of this century, Kieser pub- lished a small commentary, De Anamorphosi Oculi, at Gottingen. In 1833, the venerable Seiler, Professor of Ana- tomy at Dresden, published some observations upon the congenital faults of the eye, but these were mostly confined to, or grounded upon the examination of monoculi. To this kind, good man, not only in his writings, but personally, I am indebted for much valuable information, and for an op- portunity of examining the preparations of congenitally mor- bid eyes, in his splendid collection in the Surgical Academy, at Dresden. Since then, the magnificent work of Friedrick Von Am- mon, the Klinische Darstellungen der Krankheiten des men- schlichen Auges, has appeared, and one fascicvilus of it is devoted to the congenital diseases and malformations of the human eye. The Oplithalmologische Bihliothek is likewise rich in cases of this description, and Graefe und Walther's Journal, together with the new edition of Himlys Augen- heillnmdie, afford many interesting examples. Messrs.Ware and Wai'di'op, Lawrence, Mackenzie, Mid- dlemore, Travers, and Walker, have added a few cases, and I myself have made a small collection, some of which are made use of in this paper. With this material, and some unique