A Popular Description of the Human Eye: With Remarks on the Eyes of Inferior Animals (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from A Popular Description of the Human Eye: With Remarks on the Eyes of Inferior Animals The chief portion of this little book has frequently been given by the author in the form of a lecture. The material facts it con tains have been collected and arranged as care fully as the very limited leisure and irregular opportunities of a medical practitioner would permit. It has been the author's aim to give, in as concise a form as possible, an intelligible exposition of the wondrous power, variety, and perfection of the organ of vision in the various orders of creation; and if he has been so far successful as to excite a desire in others to study the subject for themselves, his task will be fully achieved, and his labour amply repaid. In one or two instances the author has been tempted to digress somewhat from the strict line he had originally prescribed to himself; but the nature of those digressions is not, he hopes, out of keeping with the rest of the work, nor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
