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edited by Daniel M. Albert and Diane D. Edwards, 394 pp, Cambridge, Mass, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Arch Neurol. 1998;55:124-125.

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The History of Ophthalmology was commissioned as part of the Centennial celebrations of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Most of the chapters are written by Daniel M. Albert, a distinguished ophthalmologist, and Diane D. Edwards, a historian. The editors and a number of equally scholarly contributors have produced a splendid volume that provides an overview of the millennia of thought, hypotheses, trials, and errors that have resulted in ophthalmology as we know it today. A brief description of what is known about Assyrian and Babylonian ophthalmology precedes a more extensive description of eye diseases and their treatment in ancient Egypt; a brief mention is made of ancient Chinese ophthalmology. Hippocratic writings as they pertain to the anatomy and physiology of vision and diseases of the eye are discussed at some length. These chapters, together with the shorter accounts of ancient knowledge and practices that introduce many of the subsequent chapters, . . . [Full Text of this Article]