Lectures on diseases of the eye / by N.C. Macnamara. Part I., Referring principally to those affections requiring the aid of the ophthalmoscope for their diagnosis.

  • Macnamara, Nottidge Charles, 1832-1918.
Date:
1866
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    require a few words of explanation and apology. Some few are reductions from the well-known plates of Jaeger and Liebreich, and of these I need say no more. The rest have no pretensions to be faithful portraits of disease, but diagramatic illustrations, intended to assist the descriptions in the text; and which, though somewhat rude, and executed under great disad- vantages, I hope may prove useful to those not already acquainted with the appearances they represent. I am sorry I cannot always give references to the authors from whose writings I have gained much of the material contained in the following lectures. I have been in the habit of making notes from the various works I have read, without any idea of their being subsequently published; consequently I should have great difficulty in retracing my steps and dis- covering the sources from whence many of my ideas have been derived. I cannot, however, omit to mention how much I owe to my former teachers, the surgeons of the Moorflelds Ophthalmic Hospital; to Mr. Carter for his translation of Zander, and to Mr. Soelberg Wells for his Lectures on Glaucoma and Impaired Vision. To Professors Von Graefe and Helmholtz, as also to other leading continental oculists, the science of ophthalmoscopy is vastly indebted, and to their works I would beg to refer all those interested in