ABSTRACT
Textbooks of ophthalmology provide a classified account of all ocular disorders. For detailed understanding of the whole range of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, such texts, reference works and current literature need to be consulted. For the non-medical person, an understanding of the classification of disease may be helpful and is therefore considered in this chapter. Succeeding chapters will consider some of the more common areas of ophthalmology where personal injury and litigation complaints lie.
