Refractive and ophthalmic catechism for the use of general practitioners, opticians and students
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Catalogue Number: 781
Refractive and ophthalmic catechism for the use of general practitioners, opticians and students
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection)
Author: DAILEY Lawrence J
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1898
Time Period: 19th C
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Gloversville NY
Publisher/Manufacturer: Collins Publishing Company
Description Of Item: Original brown cloth cover, gilt lettered, 218 pages and advertising leaf, 23 black and white illustrations in text including illustrations of instruments. Inscription on front fly leaf 'LW Thompson Cherry Valley NY Dec 21 '98
Historical Significance: Lawrence Dailey MD was an New York ophthalmologist. His book concentrates on refractive errors but there is much else on eye conditions. The format is questions and answers (ie a catechism). Dailey is described as formerly assistant in the eye department of the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York City and as Ophthalmologist and Otologist to the Nathan Litaurer Hospital Gloversville NY. Gloversville, where this book was published, is a small town 100 km north of Albany, the capital of New York State
How Acquired: Donated by Michael Aitken, honorary archivist and member of the College
Date Acquired: Sept 2010
Condition: Good except stain on outside margin first 12 pages
Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection
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