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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    With such unmistakable evidence of its great practical importance, and considering the extensive popularity it has achieved in comparatively a very short period, it is a matter of no Uttle satisfaction to me that the profession should in any way associate my name with its first introduction to theii- notice; and, with the object of continuing a connection so honorable to myself, on the occasion of a third edition being called for of my little work on the Ophthalmoscope, published in 1856, I have determined to enlarge the scope of its original purpose, as chiefly illustrative of the theory of the ophthal- moscope, into the more ambitious purpose of supplying a rehable hand-book of its use, giving descriptions of the cha- racters and appearances of those diseases of the transparent media, and of the more important of the internal structural apparatus of the human eye, which that instrument now affords us so invaluable, and at the same time so convenient, a means of observing. In giving to the profession such a manual of Ophthal- moscopic Surgery, it is not intended to dwell upon elements presumed to be sufficiently well known; nor, on the other hand, to follow up the extreme refinements of theoretical science connected with the subject, and which have some- times gone beyond what present experience could really warrant. But it must be obvious that the circumstances which have arisen with the occasion—the many novel and remarkable symptoms now for the first time observed—re- quire to be reduced into a system of properly defined diseases; especially when a particular tecnology has been invented to describe these new appearances properly, and to find suitable language in which to record the wonderful progress made within the last few years in the pathology of the human eye. The task, moreover, is undertaken with an agreeable feeling that, in the general advance of human knowledge which late years have witnessed, ophthalmic surgery holds a position commensurable with the importance of the organ in its especial charge. It has ceased to be the suspicious do- main of the lingering empiricism of the last century; for tlie