. The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870; a contribution to ophthalmologic history and biography; an address delivered in abstract before the section of ophthalmology of the American medical association, June 4, 1907 . DR. NATHAN E. SMITH (1707-1887).. DR. SAMTJEL D. GROSS (1805-1884). OPHTHALMOLOGY IN AMERICA. 83 his graduation Ms thesis had for its subject The Natureand Treatment of Cataract, to the composition of whichhe devoted unusual care and labor. In his autobiography(toI. i, p. 39) he says: I had seen many cases of thisdisorder during my Philadelphia pupilage.^^ It
. The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870; a contribution to ophthalmologic history and biography; an address delivered in abstract before the section of ophthalmology of the American medical association, June 4, 1907 . DR. NATHAN E. SMITH (1707-1887).. DR. SAMTJEL D. GROSS (1805-1884). OPHTHALMOLOGY IN AMERICA. 83 his graduation Ms thesis had for its subject The Natureand Treatment of Cataract, to the composition of whichhe devoted unusual care and labor. In his autobiography(toI. i, p. 39) he says: I had seen many cases of thisdisorder during my Philadelphia pupilage.^^ It is asubject which during my prolonged professional life hasdeeply interested me. So prominent was he in ocularsurgery at the close of the first half of the nineteenthcentury that he was elected one of the delegates from theUnited States to the first international ophthalmologiccongress, held in Paris in 1857, and contributed to it animportant paper in regard to the prevailing eye diseasesof this country. He was also one of the first to operatefor strasbismus, and he wrote a valuable paper on thesubject, which was published in the Western Journal ofMedicine and Surgery in 1842. One of his cotemporariessaid that this article abounded in discriminating criti-cisms o
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