Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the diseases of that organ ... / by G.J. Guthrie.

  • Guthrie, G. J. (George James), 1785-1856.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Lectures on the operative surgery of the eye : being the substance of that part of the author's course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery which relates to the diseases of that organ ... / by G.J. Guthrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medicine and surgery in general. In order to re- move some of the difficulties which impeded the progress of practitioners, and to render an ac- quaintance with these complaints more easily at- tainable by students, Lectures on the Anatomy and on the Diseases of the Eye were commenced by Dr. Forbes and myself, shortly after our appointments as Physician and Surgeon to the Royal Westminster Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, in Marylebone Street, Piccadilly; which, whilst they were sepa- rated from our respective courses of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic and Surgery, were yet founded on the same principles, and on the same general reasoning, and were elucidated by examples drawn from other parts of the body. The following observations form a part of the Lectures which were allotted to me, and are now published at the urgent desire of a great body of students, who were solicitous to have an opportunity of re- viewing those opinions more at leisure, and of re- ferring to them when they might stand in need of assistance. They felt the want of a work which, whilst it noticed the doctrines and practice of the several writers on the subject, should yet state the facts, and impartially discuss the opinions of each, so as to obviate the necessity for purchasing several books on the same subject, merely because each author has chosen to recommend only his own practice, or methods of operating. In the observa- tions I have found it necessary to make for this purpose, I have avoided as much as possible enter- ing into controversy; and where I have thought it right to combat the opinions of either the dead or