[BEER, Georg Joseph].

The Art of Preserving the Sight unimpaired to an extreme old age;

and of re-establishing and strengthening it when it becomes weak: with Instructions how to proceed in Accidental Cases, which do not require the Assistance of Professional Men, and the Mode of Treatment proper for the Eyes during, and immediately after, the Small Pox, to which are added Observations on the Inconveniences and Dangers arising from the Use of Common Spectacles, &c. &c. By An Experienced Oculist. London: Henry Colburn, 1816. Third edition, 8vo; xi, 228p.; engraved frontispice. Original cardboard covers, spine worn with some loss at head, good interior condition. Armorial book-plate of Rumillies, near Tournai in northern France. Georg Beer was an Austrian opthalmologist, and of the foremost of his time. His recommendations for ocular hygiene are aimed at workers of various trades: “Pointing out to all those who work in wool, particularly carders and spinners, and all those employed in cotton and woollen manufactures, that they should often wash their eyes, to free them from impurities”. The engraved plate details an apparatus of his invention for washing the eyes under a squirt of iced water.

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