The principles and practice of refraction and its allied subjects

Historical Significance: This book gives an account of the main scope of optometry in the middle of the 20th C from a UK perspective. The first edition was published in 1960. It does not have any content on diseases of the eye other than a chapter on ophthalmoscopy. It does not allude to biomicroscopy or tonometry in the main text, although these techniques are briefly referred to in Chapter 33 by Robert Fletcher in Section IV 'Special aspects of ophthalmic optics'. There is also a chapter on contact lenses by Dickinson in this section as an after thought to the main text. Optometry had already moved on by the time this book was published. George Giles OBE FBOA FSMC DOrth (1904-1965) was a prominent figure in UK optometry and was the Secretary of the British Optical Association from 1941-1965). He was made an Honorary Life Member of the Victorian College of Optometry when he visited in 1955.. At various times he was Senior Examiner of the BOA, Senior Staff refractionist, Senior Orthoptist and Lecturer at the London Refraction Hospital, consultant to the Thames Nautical Training College (HMS "Worcester"), Registrar of the Joint Council of Qualified Opticians, Technical Adviser to the London Optical Company, Honorary Secretary of the West and North West London and Middlesex Local Association, member of the General Optical Council, President of the International Optical League, a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and an Ernest Aves Medallist. He also qualified as a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. Giles edited the Dioptric Review and The British Journal of Physiological Optics. He co-designed the Giles-Archer Colour Vision Unit and various orthoptic instruments. See other books by Giles in this collection. Cat Nos 104, 195, 196, 607, 609, 1706.