Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices New Hope in Sight /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tombran-Tink, Joyce (Editor), Barnstable, Colin J. (Editor), Rizzo, Joseph F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Ophthalmology Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.

The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be transmitted from one living orga...