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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1886.1

HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ (1821-1894). The description of an ophthalmoscope : being an English translation of von Helmholtz’s “Beschreibung eines augenspiegels”. Chicago: Cleveland Press, 1916. 1st English edition. 33 p. : ill; 27 cm.

This English translation by Thomas Hall Shastid was the first translation of this classic ophthalmological work into any language.

Cited references: Garrison Morton 5866; Osler 1522; Cushing H230

John Martin M.D. Endowment

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