Author: SICHEL, J.- Ophthalmology.- Spectacles
Title: Leçons cliniques sur les Lunettes et les États Pathologiques consécutifs a leur usage irrationnel; ... Première et deuxième parties. [Presbytie et Myopie].
Description: Bruxelles, Imprimerie et Librairie Encyclographiques de N.-J. Gregoir, Fossé-aux-Loups, 66, 1851. 8vo. In the original half cloth over green embossed paper brds., spine a few small imperf. [1 - 12 in 6]. (IV, 141, I (blank), I (errata), I (Blank) pp.). (Some annotations in pencil). Early history of spectacles, which was once started by Sichel in les 'Annales Occulistique' in 1845 under dr Cunier and edited by dr Debout. First published in 1848. This is the second edition. See Albert, Source Book, item 2133: 'These lectures on spectacles and the pathological conditions resulting from their incorrect use appeared originally in the Annales d'Occulistique, 1845 - 1847. They deal with spectacles prescribed for presbyopia and myopia.'

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