How to use the ophthalmoscope : being elementary instructions in ophthalmology ; arranged for the use of students / by Edgar A. Browne.

  • Browne, Edgar A.
Date:
1876
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Credit: How to use the ophthalmoscope : being elementary instructions in ophthalmology ; arranged for the use of students / by Edgar A. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. I have endeavoured in the following pages to give a simple account of the mode in which the student should approach the physical diagnosis of eye-disease by means of the ophthalmoscope. The existing accounts of the instrument are either adapted to the wants of the advanced student, or are imbedded in complete ophthalmic treatises, which, in the present state of science, are far from portable. I have therefore thrown together those elementary facts which are neces- sary to be known in a sufficiently compact form to serve as a constant companion (or veritable vade mecum) to the student in the days of his early difficulties. The arrangement has been dictated by what appear from personal experience to be the wants of the average student. He is generally anxious to learn, but distracted by a multitude of facts and theories, for the most part dimly and phantasma- b