James, R. Rutson 1881-

Studies in the history of ophthalmology in England prior to the year 1800, by R. Rutson James ... - Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, pub. for the British journal of ophthalmology, 1933. - x, 255 p. illus., IX pl. (incl. front., ports., facsims.) diagrs. 25.5 cm.

Chapters IX and X first published in the Royal London ophthalmic hospital reports, vol. XX, 1915-16.

"Bibliography and references" at end of chapters IX and X.

Preface.--Ophthalmology in Roman Britain.--Anglo-Saxon ophthalmology.--Ophthalmology in the first three centuries after the Norman conquest.--The founders of British optics.--Ophthalmology from A. D. 1300 to A. D. 1600.--The seventeenth century.--The eighteenth century (orthodoxy)--The eighteenth century, continued (the ophthalmic quacks)--The chevalier Taylor, by George Coats.--Historical notes, by George Coats.--Appendix: Sloane Ms. 75 fol. 145. De cura oculorum.--Index.

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Taylor, John, 1703-1772.


Ophthalmology--Great Britain.
Ophthalmology--History.

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