12 LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS. 



LIBRARY OF OPHTHALMIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 

 Brought up to 1847. 



A TREATISE ON THE^DISEASES OF THE EYE. 



BY W. LAWRENCE, F.R.S., 



Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, &c. &c. 



A NEW EDITION, 



With many Modifications and Additions, and the Introduction of nearly two hundred Illustrations. 



BY ISAAC HAYS, M. D., 



Surgeon to Wills' Hospital, Phygician to the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, k,c. &c. 



In one very large octavo volume of near 900 pages, with twelve plates and numerous wood-cuts through 



the text. 



This is among the largest and most complete works on this interesting and difficult branch of Medica 

 Science. 



The early call for a new edition of this work, confirms the opinion expressed by the editor of its great 

 value, and has stimulated him to renewed exertions to increase its usefulness to practitioners, by incorporat-' 

 ing iu it the recent improvements in Ophilialmic Practice. In availing himself, as he has t'reely done, of 

 the observations and discoveries of his fellow-labovers in the same field, the editor has endeavored to do so 

 ■with entire fairness, always awarding to others what justly belongs to them. Among the additions which 

 have been made, may be noticed,— the descriptions of several afl'eclions not treated of in the original, — an 

 account of the catoptric examination of the eye, and of its employment as a means of diagnosis.— one hun- 

 dred and seventy-six illustrations, some of them from original drawings,— and a very lull index. There have 

 also been introduced in the sevL-ral chapters on the more important diseases, the results of the editor's ex- 

 perience in regard to their treatment, derived from more than a quarterof a century's devotion to the subject, 

 during all of which period he has been attached to some public institution for the treatmentof diseases of the 

 eye. 



'• We think there are few medical works which could be so generally acceptable as this one will be to the 

 profession on this side of the Atlantic. The want of a scientific and comprehensive treatise on Diseases 

 of the Kye, has been much deplored. That want is now well supplied. The reputation of Mr. Lawrence 

 as an Oculist has been long since fully established ; his great merit consists in the clearness of his style 

 and the very practical tenor of his work. The value of the present beautiful edition is greatly enhanced, 

 by the important additions made by the editor. Dr. Hays has, for nearly a quarter of a century, been con- 

 nected with public institutions for the treatment of Diseases of the Eye, and few men have made better im- 

 provement than he has, of such extensive opporlunities of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the subject. 

 The wood-cuts are executed wiih great accuracy and beauty, and no man, who pretends to treat diseases 

 of the eye, should be without this work." — Lancet. 



JONES ON THE EYE. Now Ready. 



THE PRmCIPLES~AND PRACTICE 

 OF OPHTHALMIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



Bv T. WHARTON JONES, F.R.S., &c. &c. 



WITH OWE HUNDRED AND TEN IliliUSTRATIONS. 



EDITED BY ISAAC HAYS, M. D., &c. 



In One very neat Volume, large royal 12?no., with Fonr Plates, plain, or colored, and Ninety- 

 eight well executed Wood-cuts. 

 This volume will be found to occupy a place hitherto unfilled in this department of medical science. 

 The aim of the author has been to produce a work which should, in a moderate compass, be suffi- 

 cient to serve both as a convenient text-book for students and as a book of reference for practitioners, 

 suitable for those who do not desire to possess the larger and encyclopaedic treatises, such as 

 Lawrence's. Thus, by great attention to conciseness of expression, a strict adherence to arrange- 

 ment, and the aid ofnumerous pictorial illustrations, he has been enabled to embody in it the prin- 

 ciples of ophthalmic medicine, and to point out their practical application more fully than has 

 been done in any other publication of the same size. The e.xecution of the work will be found 

 to correspond with its merit. The illustrations have been engraved and printed with care, and tlie 

 whole is confidently presented as in every way worthy the attention of the profession. 



" AVe are confident that the reader will find, on perusal, that the execution of the work amply fulfils the 

 promise of ihe preface, and sustains, in every point, the already hi?li reputation of the author as an ophthal- 

 mic surgeon, as well as a physiologist and pathologist. The book \f evidently the result of much labor and 

 research, and lias been written with the greatest care and attention ; it possesses that best quality which a 

 general work, like a system, or ni;ii\ual, can show, viz :— the quality of having all the materials whenceso- 

 ever derived, so thoroughly wrought up. and digested in the author's mind, as to come forth with the freshness 

 and impressiveness of an original jiroduction. We regret that we have received the book at so late a period 

 as precludes our giving more than a mere notice of it. as although essentially and necessarily a compilation, 

 it contains many things which we should be glad to reproduce in our pages, whether in the shape of nevir 

 patliological views, of old errors corrected, or of sound principles of practice in doubtful cases clearly laid 

 down. But we dare say most of our renders vi'ill shortly have an opportunity of seeing these in their original 

 locality, as we entertain liule tJoulU that this book will become what its author hoped it might become, a 

 manual for daily reference and consilltation by the student and tlie general practitioner. "The work i.s 

 marked by that correctness, clearness and precision of style which distinguish all the productions of the 

 learned author.'' — 2'he British and Foreign 3Iedical Review. 



