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The eye-surgeon performed such operations as cauterizing for ingrowing eyelashes and operating upon growths about the eyes; while the eye-doctors depended entirely upon salves and lotions.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

There were besides these quacks, however, reputable eye-doctors who must have possessed considerable skill in the treatment of certain ophthalmias.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

From her miscellaneous Yiddish reading she had gathered that miraculous eye-doctors lived in Königsberg.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

I know their tricks, standin' in with eye-doctors an' dentists!

From Calvary Alley by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

Eye-doctors seem to have been particularly numerous, and these were divided into two classes, eye-surgeons and eye-doctors proper.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington