A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... ; to which is added, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague J. R. Farre ; the whole illustrated by coloured engravings.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... ; to which is added, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague J. R. Farre ; the whole illustrated by coloured engravings. 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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    preface* AN offering this tribute to the memory of his friend, the Editor has endeavoured to limit the service to the faithful record of what the Author had written or done. In the first three Chapters the manuscript was sufficiently complete to admit of publica- tion in the form of distinct essays, in which the Author intended that it should appear; but in Chapter IV. the Editor was obliged to depart from the original plan of the work, and to connect under the stages of inflammation facts which were too valuable to be lost. This advantage, however, arises from it, that the organ of vision is thus subjected to the same general views of disease, and rules of treat-