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IN the present edition this manual, which was originally intended for army medical officers, has been considerably enlarged, with a view to its suitability as a text-book for civil as well as for military surgeons. Civil surgeons, however, are abundantly supplied with excellent works on ophthalmology; and for this reason (to say nothing of the fragmentary nature of Sir T. Longmore's Manual) we scarcely think that it will ever enjoy any large vogue amongst that class. The author treats of the detection and correction of refractive errors, and of optical defects generally: surely it would have been better to produce at once a complete manual of ophthalmology than to treat the subject in this piecemeal fashion. For how can any military surgeon be certain of his diagnosis in a case unless he has a thorough knowledge, not only of errors of refraction, but of eye diseases as well?
The Illustrated Optical Manual.
By Sir T. Longmore Fourth Edition. Pp. 239. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888.)
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The Illustrated Optical Manual . Nature 39, 385–386 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039385a0
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