A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... ; to which is added, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by his friend and colleague J. R. Farre ; the whole illustrated by coloured engravings.
A posthumous ophthalmic treatise by London surgeon John Cunningham Saunders, edited with a memoir and cataract-surgery account by J. R. Farre and published in 1811 for surgeons and medical students. Its hand-coloured engravings show single human eyes at close range, each iris rendered in fine radiating strokes with lashes drawn hair by hair, and diseased states marked by red vessel networks, clouded pupils and yellow opacities on pale paper.
