Injuries of the eye : and their medico-legal aspect / by Ferdinand von Arlt ; tr. by Chas. S. Turnbull.

  • Arlt, Carl Ferdinand von, 1812-1887.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Injuries of the eye : and their medico-legal aspect / by Ferdinand von Arlt ; tr. by Chas. S. Turnbull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The translation herewith offered to the profession is intended to fill the same gap in American medical literature which the original has so successfully filled in the German. Previous to the appearance of Pro- fessor Arlt's work, there were none but antiquated monographs on the subject; the references to ocular injuries in the best text-books were exceedingly brief and superficial, while medico-legal opinions in indi- vidual cases were too sparsely scattered through the archives and other periodical publications to call that attention to the subject which it-demands, or to serve as a guide in case such attention had been aroused. The nature of the subject is, from its complicated bearings, one in which both the therapeutic and foren- sic relations must be considered in conjunction, for frequently the forensic aspect of a case changes alto- gether when a therapeutic error can be proven to have been committed. In this age of factories and railroads, w1 en thou- sands of grievous bodily accidents occur annually, no