OPHTHALMIC SURGERY
OPHTHALMIC SURGERY. MEDICAL history records no more rapid and marvelous advancement than has characterized ophthalmology in the past quarter of a century. During this brief period, spanned even by the professional career of some who listen to me to-day, there has gradually developed a science which excels in its perfection and exactness that of my other department of medicine. From a dark and unexplored chamber the eye has been transformed into a ball of light, revealing not only what is within its narrow bounds, but, like a mirror, much that lies outside it.