Excerpt from A Treatise on Diseases of the Eye: For the Use of General Practitioners My readers are requested to bear in mind that this work is written, not for specialists, but for hom opathic physicians in general practice - for those too busied with the whole, to devote a great amount of time to any one part of medicine and surgery. The endeavor has been, to treat the subjects embraced, clearly and concisely, in the hope of presenting a volume attractive enough, and small enough, to induce the busiest to give it some attention. That there is need of works of this kind in our school is, I presume, unquestioned; and some of the reasons why this need has been permitted to exist so long, are given very frankly in the large treatise of Baehr, translated by Hempel. 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."