A manual of ophthalmoscopic surgery : being a practical treatise on the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the eye / by Jabez Hogg.

  • Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899.
Date:
1863
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Credit: A manual of ophthalmoscopic surgery : being a practical treatise on the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the eye / by Jabez Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The confident opinion I entertained, when the first edition of this work af)peared, in 1857, of the value and importance of the ophthalmoscope as an unerring guide in the previously- obscure pathology of the eye, and the great popularity which I also anticipated it would achieve, have been fully realized by the results of the past five years' experience. That its introduction would form a new era in scientific investigation, I felt assured, from the advance of special knowledge when aided by proper methods of investigation, and the wide field afforded for industrious research, now that so ample an opportunity for making exact observation has been placed in the hands of the profession, and sufficient means afforded of establishing principles of ophthalmic pathology with the precision of some other branches of surgery. To forward this great object I considered a legitimate ambition, and to this feeling was due the first detailed notice of the new instrument that had appeared in England, con- tained in a paper read before the Medical Society of London, accompanied with cases and illustrations of its use derived from my own practice. To review the progressive steps that have been taken to elucidate, with the assistance of the oph-