Catalogue Number: 1458 The ophthalmic patient: a manual of therapeutics and nursing in eye disease Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: FRIDENBERG Percy Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1900 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: New York Publisher/Manufacturer: The MacMillan Company Description Of Item: Original fawn cloth cover, 312 pages, 95 figures in text. Name of Gladys Webster on front paste down Historical Significance: Dr Fridenberg (1874-1945) was a New York ophthalmologist. He was born in Rumania and migrated to the USA in 1900. He worked with Lowenstein on pupilography in glaucoma and Posner on tonometry. How Acquired: Donated by Tony Simon, NSW optometrist, son of Victor Simon prominent NSW optometrist mid 20th C. Date Acquired: Feb 2010 Condition: Poor Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |