As the title indicates, this book recounts the history of Moorfields Eye Hospital over the first one hundred years following its founding in 1805, the significance of which is that it was the world’s first hospital created to service a single specialty, viz. ophthalmology. In recent times, two more volumes have been published to bring the history up to date but copyright constraints prevent them being available in digitised format. The text of this e-transcription has been preserved as in the original, including inconsistent spelling (storey/story) and hyphenation (inpatient/in-patient, and ‘retching’ being misspelt as ’reaching’ on p.165. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold te…
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