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more strikingly illustrates the truth of the doctrine, that the confinement of any branch of the Profession to the hands of a few, operates prejudicially to science, than the state of information in this Country, concerning the Diseases of the Eye. Mr. Samuel Cooper has spoken so preciscly as I think, upon this subject, that I cannot do better than quote his words.
«The disorders of the eye and its appen- dages are far more numerous and diversi- fied than those of any other individual part of the body, and some of the requisite ope- rations for their relicf ought to be done with the nicest combination of skill and delicacy. These circumstances, ‘strangely enough, have had the effect of inducing an erroncous supposition, that such cases do not properly enter into the department of ordinary surgery; but ought to be con- signed to the care of a man, who makes them exclusively the object of his atten- tion, and disregards disease in every other form. The morbid affections of the eye, it is true, like all other surgical cases, must be studied, in order to be understood. �
