Abstract

This reprinting of the plates from Jaeger's 1869 atlas of the fundus oculi is a worthy contribution to the history of ophthalmology and a fine esthetic experience for the viewer. It was certainly a labor of love on the part of Dr. Albert, the editor who retrieved the original paintings from the archives of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The paintings reached that repository as a bequest from Dr. William F. Norris, the senior author of the Norris and Oliver ophthalmology text so familiar to a previous generation of American medical students. Dr. Norris, the first Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, purchased the paintings from the estate of Jaeger after the death of the latter in 1884. The faithfulness of reproduction by Jaeger of normal and pathological detail is truly remarkable. Quite curious is his reproduction of the excavated glaucomatous disk as an elevation. Anyone

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