Excerpt from Ophthalmic Literature, Vol. 4: January, 1914 International scientific gatherings have been made possible only by peace among nations, and successful by the good will and cordial cooperation of all interested in their objects. These basic conditions are too recent to yet be regarded as wholly permanent. More than one carefully planned international congress has been prevented by the breaking out of war in Europe; and an almost equally serious danger threatens the one proposed for next summer at St. Petersburg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.