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John Taylor was surgeon-oculist to King George II, and claimed to be Ophthalmiater Royal to the Pope and to the Emperor, along with a multitude of royalties, including a mythical Princess of Georgia and the Viceroy of the Indies. He was the first and last ophthalmologist to travel from court to court of Europe with a cavalcade of outriders and supporters; and although he was caricatured as a mountebank, there was an element of genius about him, and his innovations, especially in squint surgery, demand that he should not be forgotten.
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Oftalmología/historia , Inglaterra , Historia del Siglo XVIIIRESUMEN
The relationship between Directional Scanning and Eye/Hand Dominance is confused. Both seem to have emerged in the Bronze Age, when patterns of artistry and cursive writing became fixed; but, by the time the alphabet was invented, the patterns became complicated by human perversity and racial rivalries, with an interesting, often damaging, legacy to the civilisations and cultures that followed.
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Paleografía , Escritura , Arte , Antiguo Egipto , Lateralidad Funcional , Antigua Grecia , Historia AntiguaAsunto(s)
Miopía/terapia , Niño , Córnea/cirugía , Anteojos , Humanos , Miopía/cirugía , Complicaciones PosoperatoriasRESUMEN
Scientific medicine is always encircled by a miscellany of medical fantasies, which come and go, and which offer a short-cut to diagnosis and treatment, and (very occasionally) both together. Oculodiagnosis, or Iridodiagnosis, has little place in honset ophthalmology, but still holds its devotees.