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In the ophthalmic department of this hospital there is a wealth of clinical material from which to gain experience. I endeavour to make the work as practical as possible and give practical demonstrations, whenever opportunity offers, of the uses of the ophthalmo scope and of the only really accurate method of testing the sight and estimating errors of refraction, viz., by retinoscopy.
To enable me to give these demonstratious oftener I must have more helpers amongst the students. When I shall have sufficiently trained a certain number they will be able to deal with the commoner eye diseases and I shall then have more time to demonstrate the less common diseases which come for treatment and I shall be able to give more frequent demonstrations of the uses of the ophthalmoscope, retinoscopy and the fallacies of testing the eyesight with the test types alone as indulged in by self-styled "Expert sight-testing opticians,'
In conclusion may I venture by pointing to the past to peer into a possible future? The Japanese have assimilated Western medicine and improved on it may not the Chinese do likewise ?
It would indeed be a proud moment for Hongkong could it evolve the first Chinese ophthalmic surgeon trained by Western methods !
G. MONTAGU HARSTON, M.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Late Clinical Assistant,
Royal London (Moorfields) Ophthalmic Hospital.