title: Frick's Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye.
abstract: George Frick, generally regarded as the first American physician to limit his practice to ophthalmology, was also the first American to author a textbook on the eye. In this historical article, the author describes Frick's education under his two great mentors, Philip Syng Physick and George Joseph Beer, and reviews Frick's book: A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye; Including the Doctrines and Practice of the Most Eminent Modern Surgeons, and Particularly Those of Professor Beer.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Albert
mesh_terms: D001877:Books; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000266:history; D014481:United States