Excerpt from A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye IN order to avoid unnecessary repetition in the course of this work, I think it advisable to give in this introduction a brief description of some of the more important and frequent modes of examination of the eye, as well as of certain remedies and appliances in common use in ophthalmic practice. 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.