The History of Ophthalmology

About this book

This new book is a comprehensive survey of the history of ophthalmology from its ancient beginnings to its entrance into the mainstream of twentieth-century medicine. For example it includes discussions of ophthalmology as practiced by Hippocrates the development of spectacles cataract surgery and the recognition and introduction of therapy for glaucoma. This book offers an accurately written and fascinating assemblage of important works about ophthalmologys history.