Excerpt from Notes on the Eye, for the Use of Undergraduate StudentsThe students' manuals on diseases of the eye, which I have seen, are either exhaustive treatises in fine print or condensations of the entire science of ophthalmology. The authors of these works seem loath to omit any knowledge which, as specialists, they have acquired. The result is that subjects which the general practitioner never attempts to master are given as much space as those with which he should be familiar.It should be the purpose of a medical school to provide its graduates with an equipment which will best meet the demands of general practice, and I recognize that there is enough matter to fill the course to over¿owing, that is of more importance than the layers of the retina or the for mula for calculating the index of refraction of a transparent medium.The only claim to originality made for this work lies in its omissions. Minute anatomy, optics, the fitting of glasses, skiascopy, ophthalmoscopy and kindred subjects have been left out intentionally, as I believe they belong to post-graduate instruction. I have also slighted those dis eases which have to be diagnosed with the ophthalmoscope, as I doubt the diagnostic value of an ophthalmoscope in the hands of the average general practitioner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.