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formation of consolidated blood filling up the aneurismal 

 tumour, and its subsequent dispersion : a similar effect would 

 be produced by artificial local irritants, which it is the design 

 of this Essay to recommend. 



A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye, as they appear in 

 Hindoostan, by Thomas A. Wise, m. d., Surgeon on the 

 Bengal Establishment. Calcutta : printed at the Baptist 

 Mission Press, 1847. 



This is a sensible little Manual : still it is not the book 

 that was wanted. It is a good enough compendium of our 

 knowledge of ophthalmic diseases, but the remarks on the 

 affections of the eye in India are scanty. We have no 

 detailed information given us, no statistics as to the re- 

 lative frequency of inflammation of the different textures, 

 but simply a manual for students; thus partaking far too 

 much of the character of Mr. Brett's work, the misnamed 

 " Surgery in India." Dr. Wise seems to consider himself to 

 be the first writer on the diseases of the eye in this country, 

 but he was anticipated some years ago by Mr. Jeaffreson, of 

 Bombay, with whose work however we have not been able to 

 meet ; and we may add, by Mr. Brett, whose Chapters on the 

 Eye equal those of the present volume in bulk. If we had been 

 presented with detailed essays on Amaurosis and Glaucoma, 

 on Nyctalopia, on the Sloughing of the Cornea — so prevalent 

 in the last stage of various diseases, &c. we should have wel- 

 comed such a work as an addition to our literature, and no 

 one is more capable of affording such information than Dr. 

 Wise : as it is, his book does not require detailed analysis 

 or criticism. But we shall let him speak for himself, by ex- 

 tracting freely from what he says — on diseases of the eye as 

 occurring in India; — his remarks are generally extremely 

 judicious, showing the author to be sensible and well inform- 

 ed, and will therefore require but little comment. 



