A handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment

Historical Significance: This is the first edition of a standard text that ran for several editions to 1903 and then became 'Swanzy's Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment' in 1919. The book gives a good idea of the standard of knowledge of ocular pathology in the late 19th C. Sir Henry Swanzy (1884-1913) received his MD degree at Dublin in 1865 and studied in Berlin under von Graefe before setting up an ophthalmic practice in Dublin. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK 1897-9 and of the Royal College of Surgeons 1906-8. Swanzy gave the Bowman lecture in 1888 and had earlier written an an Atlas of ophthalmoscopy 1870.See First edition of this book Cat No 328. Other editions and copies at Cat nos.50, 329, 330, 625 and 3334