[Ads-l] Antedating of "Ophthalmology"

[Shapiro, Fred]

ophthalmology (OED 1825)

1822 _Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature_ Jan. 96 ff. (ProQuest)  In Germany and Italy the science of ophthalmology has continued to constitute a part of medical instruction.

NOTE: This is apparently a reprint of a book review in the _London Medico-Chirurgical Review_ (1821).

Fred Shapiro

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