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Excerpt from The Physiology of Vision
The author of the following work has been engaged for more than twenty years in teaching the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye, to medical students. His course of lec tures on these subjects being limited to a period of three months, or about sixty lectures, and intended chiefly as a practical course on a branch of the healing art, he has generally been obliged to curtail the very interesting matter of the physiology of vision, more especially of late years, in order that he might do that justice to the anatomical and pathological departments of his subject, which the pre vicus studies of his auditors, their ultimate views in attend ing to the eye, and the continual improvements taking place in practical ophthalmology, seemed to him to demand. In order to supply in some measure the deficiency arising from this necessary abridgment, he has often been solicited to publish a short systematical work on the physiology of vision.
As it is now presented to his pupils and the public, the fol lowing treatise is one of very humble pretensions. Its chief claim to their indulgence is its being an attempt to explain perspicuously, and in accordance with scientific principles, one of the most interesting subjects of human inquiry, viz.
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