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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but it was quickly defeated as the senior surviving general, Haji Mohammad Suharto, drove the movement s partisans out of Jakarta. Riding the crest of mass violence, Suharto blamed the Communist P...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.

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In 1965-66, army-organized massacres claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of supporters of the Communist Party of Indonesia. Very few of these atrocities have been studied in any detail, and answers to basic questions remain unclear. What was the relationship between the army and civilian militias? How could the perpetrators come to view unarmed individuals as dangerous enemies of the nation? Why did Communist Party supporters, who numbe...

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Ophthalmic and Otic Memoranda is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publi...

Excerpt from Ophthalmic and Otic MemorandaThe authors would take this opportunity of repeating that the work is rather a dictionary of Ophthalmic and Otic science than a text-book that it gives only a bare outline of the subject of which it treats, and that it is never to be recom mended as a substitute for the larger works.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Excerpt from Ophthalmic and Otic MemorandaThe authors would take this opportunity of repeating that the work is rather a dictionary of Ophthalmic and Otic science than a text-book that it gives only a bare outline of the subject of which it treats, and that it is never to be recom mended as a substitute for the larger works.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear, Including a Sketch of Aural Anatomy and PhysiologyThe larger part of the work is essentially a digest of my own experience in the treatment of diseases Of the ear, now ex tending over more than twelve thousand cases for which I have had the personal responsibility. The nomenclature of this book has been accepted quite generally in the profession, and some of the views which were set...

Excerpt from The Eye and Its DiseasesThere is a popular notion that it is much more dangerous to tire the eyes by use than it is to tire any other organ of the body. It is not necessarily injurious to the legs, or the arms, or the brain to become tired, for proper rest may restore all these to their nor mal condition. The same is true in regard to the eyes. Proof readers, sewing women, authors, and mechanics, who use their eyes for a long time...

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including the Anatomy of the OrganThe anatomical portion of the volume has been compiled from the most recent authorities. The text-book of Professor J. Henle, of Gottingen, a work which has not been translated into English, has been made the general basis of the descriptions of the various parts of the ear, and of the arrangement of the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from A Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Eye: Including a Sketch of Its AnatomyThis book has not been written because the author supposed, for an instant, that there were not already in the English tongue many excellent treatises on diseases of the eye. It is presented to the profession because I have not deemed that the debt I owe to it could be even approximately satisfied, nor my own reputation as a teacher, whatever that may be, j...

Excerpt from A Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Eye: Including a Sketch of Its AnatomyThe Ophthalmometer. - Ru1es for its Use - Field of Vision - Perimeters The Blind Spot - The Perception of Colors - Double Vision - Paralysis of the Muscles. - Prisms. - The Action of the Muscles - Tests of their Power Inexact and Unnecessary. - Determination of Binocular Single Vision - The Simulation of Blindness - Method of Recording Cases.About the Publi...

Excerpt from Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear: Including the Anatomy of the OrganA history should be kept for the proper study of cases - Hearing tests. - Ordinary con versation. - The tuning-fork - The tick of a watch. Acoumeter. - Record of the hearing distance. - Prout's method. Discrepancy between the power of hearing a watch and conver sation. - How deaf-mutes feel the vibrations of the tuning-fork Malingering. - Aural specul...