VETCH (John). A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye.1820

London: Printed for the Author, First edition, 8vo (215 x 135 mm), x, [2], 267, [1]pp., 3 hand-coloured engraved plates, presentation inscription from the author to Doctor Pearson on front fly-leaf, later purple cloth. "In 1807 vetch published the first description of Egyptian ophthalmia, subsequently named trachoma by the Danish physician Benz. In the present work he presents a systematic treatise on the prognosis and treatment of ocular affections, particularly ophthalmic infammations and ophthalmia. The second part of the work contains a full history of the Egyptian ophthalmia which was so devastating to the British and French armies during the Napoleonic Campaigns."—Becker. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with several of their neat library stamps. Albert, Norton & Hurtes, 2378; Becker Catalogue, 390.