Diseases and injuries of the eye: their medical and surgical treatment

Historical Significance: George Lawson FRCS (1831-1903) 9rote 'Injuries of the eye, orbit, and eyelids: their immediate and remote effects' published in 1867 which went to numerous editions of which this is the 5th. The 6th and last was published in 1903. Lawson was one of the great names in the ophthalmic world in the middle of 19thC century, He was the student and assistant to the famous surgeon, W. Fergusson, and started his practice in London in 1856. He became a surgeon and an instructor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital and later at Moorfields Hospital. Achieving a great reputation as an ophthalmologist, he became surgeon oculist to Queen Victoria in 1886, and received many other honours.