Textbook of Ophthalmoscopy

Two volume set. First edition. Volume 1, The Normal Eye, Determination of Refraction, Diseases of the Media, Physiological Optics, And Theory Of The Ophthalmoscope. [iv] 274pp Color frontispiece and 3 color plates (8) publisher's ads. Volume 2, Diseases of The Retina, Optic Nerve And Choroid, Their Varieties And Complications [iv] 260pp. Color frontispiece and 7 color plates. (2) publisher's ads. Octavos. Brown cloth with paper spine labels. Volume one with the bookplate of L. Webster Fox A.M., M.D.Edward Greely Loring, inventor of the Loring ophthalmoscope, was an American ophthalomologist, educated in Italy and at Harvard before practicing in Boston, Baltimore and New York.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 for 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. …