Author: “Arthur Edmondston, [1776?-1841] a Scottish surgeon, published in 1802 the first account in English of Egyptian ophthalmia. That work proved to be the first of more than twenty English publications dealing with ophthalmia that appeared between 1806 and 1820. In the present treatise the author establishes his claim as the first to demonstrate the contagious nature of ophthalmia.

Although Edmondston was not in Egypt, his researches were based on his experience with an outbreak among troops at Gibralter and on a Paris epidemic in 1803. In dividing inflammations of the eye into idiopathic and symptomatic ophthalmias, he anticipated William Mackenzie’s approach by some thirty years.”

Publisher: Classics of Ophthalmology Library, Gryphon Editions (c. 1992 ) Facsimile of 1806 edition

Format/Condition: NEW leather volume is in fine condition.