. Annals of medical history. the appearance ofOur Lady of the Fountain in the Citj ofCordova. A table of paged (or rather folioed)contents follows. A second, more scientific, address tothe reader is now given in which theauthor quotes Aristotle and other authori-ties, to stimulate his study of the naturalsciences and particularly to induce himto investigate optics and ocular philosophy,if for no other reason than that Dioscrio nuestros ojos. Although the table of contents does notindicate it, the Valdez text is comprised inthree books, the first two dealing with theanatomy of the eye and the p
. Annals of medical history. the appearance ofOur Lady of the Fountain in the Citj ofCordova. A table of paged (or rather folioed)contents follows. A second, more scientific, address tothe reader is now given in which theauthor quotes Aristotle and other authori-ties, to stimulate his study of the naturalsciences and particularly to induce himto investigate optics and ocular philosophy,if for no other reason than that Dioscrio nuestros ojos. Although the table of contents does notindicate it, the Valdez text is comprised inthree books, the first two dealing with theanatomy of the eye and the physiology ofeyesight. The first book, again, is sub-divided into eleven, the second, into tenchapters. The third book is made up of four curiousand interesting dialogues. The intcrlocutores 152 Annals oj Medical History in each instance include a doctor and ateacher, but the names of certain otherparticipants, mostly pupils, are different orare changed in each dialogue. This ingeniousarrangement permits an orderly discussion. Portrait of Daca de Valdez appearing in his essay onspectacles. of the preliminary scientific thesis justindicated, followed by a practical review ofit by two teachers and their disciples. It is,in fact, a sort of early Spanish questioncompcnd, a useful query- and-answer con-sideration of practically all that was knownor guessed at in the domain of PhysiologicOptics by Valdcz and writers of hisacquaintance. Time and space do not permitof a detailed account of these interestingtopics but some of the ilhistrations thatelucidate the topics under discussion are heregiven. One ■ chapter is devoted to imperfectvision due to natural (congenital) and acquired conditions; while Chapter Four,Book I, gives an admirable description ofthe several improvements in vision affordedby (mark the language) properly fittingglasses. In the chapter following, a referenceis made to the weak or depraved sight^ofold age. Next in order is a treatise on (con-genital) short-sight in
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