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FRICK (George). A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye; Including the Doctrines and Practice of the Most Eminent Modern Surgeons, and Particularly those of Professor Beer. A New Edition with Notes, by Richard Welbank.1826
London: Printed for John Anderson, First English edition, 8vo, xii, [v]-xii, [13]-308pp., with half-title, folding engraved frontispiece of surgical instruments, nineteenth-century purple cloth. Frick was an eye surgeon in Baltimore, and this work, a compendium based largely on G. J. Beer's lectures, was so highly regarded in England that it was re-published here with notes by Richard Welbank. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute. Hirschberg Para. 746; Becker, 142; Garrison and Morton, 5844; Albert, Norton & Hurtes, 780 (first American edition of 1823).
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