Observations and cases relating to the operation for artificial pupil; in a letter from Mr. Maunoir of Geneva, to Professor Scarpa of Pavia, with the professor's answer / communicated by Dr. Marcet.

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822.
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[1816]
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Credit: Observations and cases relating to the operation for artificial pupil; in a letter from Mr. Maunoir of Geneva, to Professor Scarpa of Pavia, with the professor's answer / communicated by Dr. Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is of little importance to my readers, to be told, how my attention came to be direct- ed more particularly to the treatment of dis- eases of the eyes; it is fufFicient to inform them, that for fome years, I have had a considerable practice in that department of. my profefsion, and that the hopes of being j able to improve that particular branch, i has principally induced me to publish thiss Treatise, It is not however on that account folely,, that I have ventured to appear before the public. The art of curing diseases has^ of late years, made rapid ftrides toward?! arriving at that acme of perfection, be^ yond which it is not in the power of man to advance it. The light which has been let in upon us, by the doctrines of that greai