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Transcriber’s Notes

Italics text has been transcribed between underscores. Small capitals have been replaced with ALL CAPITALS.

More Transcriber’s Notes may be found at the end of this text.

The eye--it cannot choose but see.

--Wordsworth.

TECHNIQUE OF EYE DISSECTIONS

FREDERIC A. WOLL, Ph.D.,

Associate Professor, Department of Hygiene, College of the City of New York; Optometry Courses, Columbia University; Member of New York State Board of Examiners in Optometry; Honorary Member: American Optometric Association; State Societies--Alabama, California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island; Local Societies--Lehigh Valley Society of Optometrists, Mahoning Valley Optometrists’ Society, and Optometrists’ Club of Brooklyn.

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK FREDERIC A. WOLL 1924

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY FREDERIC A. WOLL Printed in the United States of America First Edition, July, 1914 Second Edition, April, 1924

SCHLUETER PRINTING CO., NEW YORK

DEDICATION

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH AFFECTION AND ESTEEM TO MY FIRST TEACHER IN OPTICS, MY FRIEND FOR YEARS

ANDREW JAY CROSS

WHOSE RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF APPLIED OPTICS HAS WON FOR HIM RECOGNITION AND HONOR

CONTENTS

PAGE

Preface 13

Introduction 17

Removal of Hyaloid Membrane with Contents and Attachments Intact 25

Canal of Petit, The 35

Interior of the Eye, The 38

Posterior Half, The 40

Optic Nerve, The 47

Anterior Half, The 49

Iris, The 51

Cornea, The 52