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Edited by Daniel M. Albert and Frederick A. Jakobiec. 5237 pp. in six volumes, illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1994. $825. ISBN 0-7216-6592-6.

In his preface to this series, one of the editors writes that many students probably are attracted to ophthalmology because of the erroneous notion that one should be able to master all available knowledge about an organ as small and anatomically well defined as the eye. This book demonstrates the folly of such a fantasy. This six-volume series makes up a single large textbook (1437 pages) on basic science and five volumes (totaling 3800 pages) devoted to clinical practice and contains more than 6000 illustrations, diagrams, graphs, and tables. The project was designed to be a comprehensive but not exhaustive . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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