Excerpt from Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi

In the Diagnostics Of the Fundus Oculi, the author seeks to present his subject in a manner serviceable to the Ophthalmologist, the neurologist and the general practitioner, as well as to the teacher and the student. It is hoped that the ophthalmologist may find in the text, with its accom panying figures, some features that will meet with his approbation, and that the stereographic reproductions Of the fundus will recall to his mind cases encountered in his own practice. There are many diseased condi tions Of the fundus with which the general practitioner should be familiar, and it is believed that the stereograms accompanying this volume will aid him greatly in their recognition. They are all reproductions Of actual cases and in each instance the fundus conditions have been depicted with every effort possible toward accuracy. The rarer examples, such as those of maculo-cerebral degeneration and retinitis punctata albescens, are hardly necessary in his ordinary practice, but it would seem highly desir able and almost essential that he should be able to call to his aid in diagnosis such common fundus pictures as those presented by choked disc. Albuminuric retinitis and optic atrophy, With others less common, perhaps, as his knowledge Of fundus diseases and his facility in the use of the ophthalmoscope increase. The teacher will, it is hoped, find the stereo grams Of advantage as substitutes, when necessary, for actual cases in his clinical lectures, and they can hardly fail to be of a similar service to the student of ophthalmology. It is not without some misgivings that a work of this character is presented to the medical profession. Many ex tensive works on diseases Of the fundus have preceded it, as have also treatises more profound upon its pathology. It has been the endeavor Of the author to combine both these features in a work sufficiently con densed for agreeable study. The collection of cases and specimens has extended over a period of a number Of years and, in his efforts in this direction, the author has to thank many of his colleagues who have so kindly given their aid and to whom reference is made, it is hoped in all instances. In the text. In the preparation of the pathological specimens, his thanks are especially due to Dr. James Ewing and Dr. Henry T. Brooks, and he has also to thank Dr. Alfred Braun for his kindly criticism of the color tints. As well as Dr. H. W. Wootton for suggestions in regard to the text.

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