Catalogue Number: 337 Anomalies of refraction and the muscles of the eyes Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: Flavel Benjamin TIFFANY Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1897 Edition: 1st Edition Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Kansas City Publisher/Manufacturer: Hudson-Kimerley Publishing Co Description Of Item: 307 pages, 12 plates including some in colour. 188 figures in text. Historical Significance: Flavel Tiffany (1846-1918) is described as an optometrist physician in 'A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo.' 1896, and as coming to Kansas City in 1887 as a Union Civil War veteran. He lived in 'Tiffany Castle' a house resembling a European castle built 1908 (see pic). He wrote some 18 books on the eye muscles, strabismus, skin grafts of the orbit, diseases of the eye as well as travel books and memoirs Condition: Fair Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |