CURTIS (John Harrison): - A Treatise on the Physiology and Disease of the Eye. Containing a New Mode of Curing Cataract Without an Operation; Experiments and Observations on Vision, Also on the Inflection, Reflection, and Colours of Light; Together With Remarks on the Preservation of Sight, and on Spectacles, Reading-Glasses, &c. Second AEdition

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman..., 1835 Large 8vo, 227 x 138 mms., pp. xvi. 242, 6 [adverts], including half-title, and eight pages of adverts before text, hand coloured frontispiece of head of women with overlay to reveal veins, one other full-page hand-coloured engraved plate of eyes, original quarter cloth, drab boards, paper label on spine; some slight staining of boards and spine, but a very good coy. The otologist John Harrison Curtis (1783/4–1852) published in 1817 his first book Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Ear, which ran to four editions. He was entirely self-taught and probably was a bit of a quack, but he published several medical books, and the first edition of this one on the ear appeared in 1833,