Ophthalmic Review (Volume 9) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Excerpt: ... GEORGE SPILLER, fljamifatttmng Optician, 3, WIGMORE STREET, ErOrlDOIJ, w. SPECTACLES & PINCE-NEZ TO SURGEONS' DIRECTIONS. (Bxact Duplirates ran Subsequently be (c)btatneo. GALTON'S WHISTLES, For determining the upper limits of audible sound in different persons. A. HAWES, 79, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, EX., (Optician to the Hopal IConbon ((c)pbibalmic hospital. Cases of Test Lenses and Trial Frames made to Order. COMPOUND & OTHER LENSES CAREFULLY WORKED TO OCULISTS' PRESCRIPTIONS. ESTABLISHED 1840. Recipients of the Highest Award in London for Spectacles, International Exhibition, Class XIII. W. JOHNSON & SONS, 188, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON, W. Opticians to the University College Hospital. SPECIALITIES-- SPECTACLES--ASTIGMATIC AND PRISMATIC. OCULISTS' TRIAL CASES & HISTOLOGICAL MICROSCOPES. THE IRISH LICENSING BODIES AND OPHTHALMIC SURGERY. By John B. Story, Extern Examiner In Ophthalmic Surgery To The University Op Dublin, No time can be more fitting than the present wherein to treat of the position which the study of ophthalmic surgery occupies or should occupy in the education of the medical student, and I have chosen the relation of the Irish corporations to that study as the subject of this article, because, so far as I know, they have been the first to recognise the importance of ophthalmic surgery to the general practitioner, and it is not generally known that all the Irish medical corporations at present insist upon each candidate for their licences passing an examination in this branch of surgery, and attending besides at an ophthalmic hospital or ophthalmic department of a general hospital, where "clinical" instruction is given. Ophthalmic surgery does not seem to have received much attention in the discussion that has been going on of late upon the gaps and def