The Eye in History

Key Features :

• Ophthalmology written as well for the layperson and the general practitioner with some interest in the historical perspective of ophthalmology as for the Eye MD.
• The structure and function of the eye, notions on optics and comparative anatomy, descriptions of some eye disorders and their treatment as well as a review of the giants on whose shoulders we now stand, are described. The book will also peer into the future of Ophthalmology.
• Unique chapters describe: the psychology of how we see, the eye of the animals, the history of the surgical techniques, the story of a number of famous ophthalmic patients, and there is also a very interesting section on the eye in art.
• This book will give much pleasure to the reader, who can go through it stepwise. Dr Goes and his contributors enjoyed writing it.