Author: Ellice Murdoch Alger

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780331656459

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Excerpt from Refraction and Motility of the Eye: With Chapters on Color Blindness and the Field of Vision; Designed for Students and Practitioners Prepared originally as a series of lectures to the writer's post-graduate students it included a number of topics not usually found in books on refraction. Every efiort was made to avoid the theoretical Without sacrificing the essential; to have each subject prepare for and lead up to the following one {to avoid the laying down of dog matic rules, but to explain reasons so that the student should eventually rely on himself and be prepared to undertake the entire functional examination of the eye. The common belief that Refraction is nearer 'an exact science than any other department of medicine has been a great misfortune to Ophthalmology. On this postulate men with equal training should arrive at exactly the same results. It leads many ophthalmologists to consider re fraction as professional drudgery, as uninteresting as the measurement of the schematic eye, except for the fee ih volved; and is the chief basis for the lay belief that it is not essentially a department of medicine at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Refraction and Motility of the Eye written by Ellice Murdoch Alger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Refraction and Motility of the Eye: With Chapters on Color Blindness and the Field of Vision; Designed for Students and Practitioners Prepared originally as a series of lectures to the writer's post-graduate students it included a number of topics not usually found in books on refraction. Every efiort was made to avoid the theoretical Without sacrificing the essential; to have each subject prepare for and lead up to the following one {to avoid the laying down of dog matic rules, but to explain reasons so that the student should eventually rely on himself and be prepared to undertake the entire functional examination of the eye. The common belief that Refraction is nearer 'an exact science than any other department of medicine has been a great misfortune to Ophthalmology. On this postulate men with equal training should arrive at exactly the same results. It leads many ophthalmologists to consider re fraction as professional drudgery, as uninteresting as the measurement of the schematic eye, except for the fee ih volved; and is the chief basis for the lay belief that it is not essentially a department of medicine at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.