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Title: The refraction of the eye; including a complete treatise on ophthalmometry;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Davis, Achilles Edward, 1866- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Eye Eye
Publisher: New York, London, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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^ as 1885 hepublished a paper in the Archives of Ophthalmology^ Vol. XIV,
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Fig. 1. — The ophthalmometer complete. under the title of Ophthalmometry with the Ophthalmometerof Javal and Schiotz, with an Account of a Case of Keratoco- DESCRIPTION OF THE OPHTHALMOMETER 3 nns. Dr. Henry D. Noyes, of New York, began using theinstrument about the same time. Both of these instrumentswere old models. In 1887, Dr. Burnett gave a description ofthe old model instrument in his Treatise on Astigmatism; andin the same year, 1887, in the Reference Hand Booh of theMedical Sciences^ Dr. John Green, of St. Louis, gave a descrip-tion of the instrument with a cut. The instrument remainedcomparatively unknown, however, in this country until 1889. When the new or 1889 model came out it found amongits advocates, among others. Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, of NewYork, who by his earnest and persistent advocacy of the instru-ment, especially in the class-room and in the hospital, wherepractical demonstrations of its use and value were given, didmuch to bring it into general favor. Otherefractionofeye00davi

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