Ophthalmology :

Abstract

This little guide does not presume to tell the medical student all that he needs to know about ophthalmology, for there are many larger books that do. But the medical curriculum becomes yearly more congested, while ophthalmology, still the ‘ Cinderella ’ of medicine, is generally left until the last, and only too readily goes by default. So it is to these harassed final - year students that the book is principally offered, in the sincere hope that they will fi nd it useful; for nearly all eye diseases are recognized quite simply by their appearance, and a guide to ophthalmology need be little more than a gallery of pictures, linked by lecture notes.