Catalogue Number: 806 Internal diseases of the eye and atlas of ophthalmoscopy Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: TRONCOSO Manuel Uribe y Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1937 Edition: 1st Edition (5th reprint) Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Philadephia Publisher/Manufacturer: FA Davis Company Description Of Item: Original red cloth, 530 pages, 95 figures on 82 full page colour plates. Old library stamp for VOA. Historical Significance: First published 1937, numerous reprintings, with a second edition 1950. The author also published on slit lamp microscopy (1936) and gonioscopy (1946), which was co-authored with Ida Mann. His book on gonioscopy is rated as one of the most significant books of the 20th C see http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/dept/20thCenturyBooks/100Books.htm. It is credited with bringing about the widespread clinical adoption of gonioscopy. Manuel Troncoso (1867- 1959) was Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology Mexico National School of Medicine 1915-1916 and was is Mexico's best known ophthalmologist but he migrated to the USA in 1916. See biography http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:ia8fNcx6VJsJ:www.ishm2006.hu/abstracts/files/ishmpaper_101.doc+manuel+Troncoso+ophthal&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=au How Acquired: Ex Nathan Library Condition: Fair Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |