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Edited by Daniel M. Albert and Diane D. Edwards. 394 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Science, 1996. $99.95. ISBN 0-86542-378-4.

As part of the centennial celebration of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (1896 to 1996), Daniel M. Albert and Diane D. Edwards were commissioned to write The History of Ophthalmology. Their book celebrates the advances that have been made in the field over the centuries. The first chapter, "Ophthalmology before Hippocrates," recounts the first known fee schedule, found in the Code of Hammurabi: "The doctor who treats and cures a gentleman's wound, or has operated on the eye with a copper lancet, shall charge 10 shekels of silver." The code discouraged the pursuit of a career in surgery and ophthalmology: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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