A New Method of Treating Chronic Glaucoma Based on Recent Researches Into Its Pathology

An inscription on the half title page reads to Webster Fox Esq. M.D. / With the best wishes of the / Author Sept. 1887 / 14 Stratford Place / Oxford St. / London W. First edition. Hardcover. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt titles. Octavo. [vi] 48pp (16) publisher's ads. The frontispiece consists of a tissue guarded color Diagram of the Lymphatic & Vascular System of the Eye. Front free end paper detached otherwise very good.George Lindsay Johnson was a noted ophthalmologist who combined pioneering experiments in colour photography into his studies.Doctor L. Webster Fox was a prominent ophthalmic surgeon. In his later years, his work took him to the western United States to treat the Blackfeet Indians. For his role in bringing about the elimination of trachoma, an eye disease prevalent among native Americans, Dr. Fox was adopted into the Blackfeet tribe.- Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.