The causes and prevention of blindness
 Catalogue Number: 190 The causes and prevention of blindness Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: FUCHS Ernst Hofrat Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1885 Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Bailliere Tindall and Cox Description Of Item: Original cloth cover, 247 pp and book advertisements. Folding chart showing incidence of blindness at page 270. Translated from the French by RE Dudgeon. Historical Significance: The book emphasises that much blindness at the time was caused through ignorance and neglect and that attention to many obvious practical measures could be expected to aid prevention. Dr Ernst Fuchs (1851-1930) was Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Vienna. He was very good at the microscope, and he sketched and described numerous syndromes which still bear his name. Fuchs' Dystrophy is one. In 1889 he wrote the Textbook of Ophthalmology, a definitive and widely used work, which went to many editions. See Cat Nos 67, 191, 190 and 1065. How Acquired: Donated by Mrs M Padman, widow of Eric Padman, Tasmanian optometrist Condition: Good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |