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Berlin: Hermann Peters 1858. Hard Cover. First Edition. Ex-Library. xi, [1-blank], 279, [1-errata] pages. This copy in the original cloth, exlibrary from the Hartford Medical Society with bookplate on front pastedown and several perforated stamps throughout. Hinges cracked but holding, generally bright and clean internally. Garrison Morton (5883) notes: "Alfred Carl Graefe, cousin of Albrecht, made a careful clinical analysis of disordered movements of the eye. He also invented a special 'localization ophthalmoscope', and, with Saemisch, edited the great Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde". Daniel M Albert, Norton, and Hurtes (Source Book of Ophthalmology, p129) add that Graefe established an eye clinic at Halle that became a world-renowned institution, and that Graefe introduced antisepsis into ophthalmology. They also note the special ophthalmoscope he invented was to aid in the removal of cysticerci. Regarding this specific title, they note it is a "careful clinical analysis of disordered movements of the eyes, discussing principally paralysis of the ocular muscles." Not in the Becker Collection. Source Book of Ophthalmology, p129 Good.

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