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Excerpt from The Embryology, Anatomy and Histology of the Eye: With Illustrations Made From Transverse Sections of the Human Eye Enlarged by Micro Photography, the Physiology of Vision In approaching this work, perhaps a word of explanation to the reader may be desirable. It is not undertaken because the author thinks there is a lack of knowledge about the eye; neither have there been any new facts discovered which would merit the production of these articles. It is therefore not the intention to bring out any new facts, but to put the known and widely scattered facts in a more comprehensible form and to illustrate the subject so thoroughly and completely that it will be made more easy for the beginner and more interesting to those who find it necessary to review the subject. All the illustrations of the structures of the eyeball and smaller structures will be microphotographs taken from microscopic slides in the author's possession, while the coarser structures of the orbit will be illustrated by drawings, as these structures are too large for the tissues to be mounted on microscopic slides. The microscopic slides used to photograph the foetal eye are from the pig and were procured at the Armour packing house by collecting the foetal pigs at the gutting table. These foetesis ran from two millimeters to forty millimeters in length, and the mounting of the slides was done by Dr. Slonaker, at the Chicago University. The slides used in photographing the adult eye were made by Dr. Slonaker when he wrote his thesis on the acute area of vision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.