Excerpt from Ophthalmic Literature, Vol. 3: June, 1913The adage about showing children and fools unfinished work might be extended to critics and unfinished books, particularly with a book of this character. What might strike a reader as a serious omission or noticeable incompleteness might readily be explained by the editor with the statement that the material in question would be found in another volume. Many topics in ophthalmology might with appearance of propriety be indexed under several different letters of the alphabet. One writer would place them under one word, another under a totally different heading. This fact somewhat limits the value of alphabetic arrangement for convenient reference, at least until one has to some extent mastered the particular book to which he has to refer.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.