Is the human eye changing its form under the influence of modern education? / Edward G. Loring.

  • Loring, Edward G. (Edward Greeley), 1837-1888.
Date:
1878
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    I should adopt a tone of approval which might almost seem extravagant; but if I am to give an opinion of it as a guide for the students attending these lectures, I feel compelled to say, there are open to you more appropriate sources of infor- mation. It has, however, very deservedly the credit (and this must be a source of immense satisfaction to its excellent author) of having essentially contributed to diffuse among the profession an acquaintance with diseases of the eye. The latest work on diseases of the eye is written by Mr. Morgan, one of the surgeons to Guy's Hospital ;* and I must confess it has disappointed the expectations I had formed of it prior to its publication. The known ability of its author, his ample means of observation, the attention he is reputed to have paid to the subject, and, 1 may add, the important public position he occupies, led me to expect, not merely a respectable work, but one which, in right of its merits, should take its place by the side of that written by Mr. Lawrence, — and higher praise than this cannot be accorded to any existing volume connected with ophthalmic pathology. The descriptions of disease as given in Mr, Morgan's book are always meagre, but not always correct; and the treatment recommended for their relief is by no means fully stated, neither is it in by any means every instance approiDriate. The plates which accompany the work constitute its chief value. The recent w^orks of M. Stoeber,! Rognetta,J and Velpeau,§ which have been so favourably reviewed in the continental journals, appear to me open to all the objections now urged against that of Mr. Morgan, but in a much less * Lectures on Diseases of the Eye. London, 1839. f Manuel Pratique cle VOphthalmologie. Bruxelles, 1837. X Cours dc rOphlhabnoloyie, on Traile Complct des Maladies de I'CEil. Tiiris, 1839. § Manuel Pratique des Maladies des Yeux. Paris, 1810. Edited bv G. Jean- SEI.ME.