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PORTERFIELD, William (1695 – 1771)

1695 – 1771

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1759 CE

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A treatise on the eye. The manner and phenomena of vision. 2 vols.

Porterfield was Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine at Edinburgh from 1724-26. His book included many original observations. It was the first important British work on the anatomy and physiology of th…