About the Author
George Milbrey Gould (1848-1922) was a drummer boy during the Civil War, and attended Harvard Divinity School. He became an ophthalmologist and invented the cemented bifocal lens. He was also editor of American Medicine and wrote A Pocket Medical Dictionary, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, Righthandedness and Lefthandedness, The Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary, and The Infinite Presence.