Show CAMERA HELPS SAVE THE EYE doctor Wf Uther thorner assistant at tho clinic of eye diseases it the royal charity hospital at berlin has recently made a of great importance in the domain of ocular science in solving a problem that several practitioners had hitherto studied but with indifferent results he haa succeeded in photographing the back of the eye and in obtaining good photographic to reproductions his invention is a large improvement upon the helmholtz eye speculum which permits only of examining tho back of the eye while now an imago of it can bo fixed owing to this invention ven tion the delicate art of the oculist is destined to enter a now phase which vill doubtless be the starting point of interesting discoveries in the domain of ocular science tho failure of all attempts made up to the present to photograph the interior and the back of tho eye has been duo to the peculiar structure of this organ it is difficult in fact to nato the eye sufficiently to obtain a photograph of it and even upon cm cloying a powerful source of exposure of the organ would take too long and would occasion unendurable pain to the patient an account of the success of dr Thor nera invention is in the balance of an extended illustrated ar tide which Is of absorbing interest |