A guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye : with an outline of their medical and operative treatment / by James Dixon.

  • Dixon, James, 1813-1896.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye : with an outline of their medical and operative treatment / by James Dixon. 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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    The forceps I employed was not the best instrument I could imagine for the purpose, but the best I had at hand, and the delay of a day might have caused the fragment to break its slender attachment, and fall down upon the retina. I need hardly say that in a case like the present, as in those cases where a small body has to be caught in the cavity of the bladder, there is a certain lucky chance, without which the most skilful manipulations may fail of success.— {Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, vol. i., p. 280.)