Cataract : a familiar description of its nature, symptoms, and ordinary modes of treatment, particularly with reference to the operation performed by the author at the "Royal Infirmary for Cataract" / by John Stevenson.

  • Stevenson, John, 1778-1846?
Date:
1834
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Credit: Cataract : a familiar description of its nature, symptoms, and ordinary modes of treatment, particularly with reference to the operation performed by the author at the "Royal Infirmary for Cataract" / by John Stevenson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The author ventures to hope that the following brief, familiar, and practical account of one of the most serious “ills that flesh is heir to,” with a mode of remedy which experience has proved to he of singular efficacy, will be acceptable to the public. He is not desirous of an empirical noto- riety—nothing is farther from his thoughts; nor ambitious of the fame of a Discoverer in oph- thalmic science. He will be content if the pre- sent publication should be the means of diffus- ing information among all classes—but especially the poorer ones—on a subject so melancholy and important as that which it discusses; and of attract- ing attention to the charitable Institution where the author’s peculiar method of treatment is adopted on an extensive scale. 18, Margaret Street, Cavendish Sq June 1834.