A handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment
 Catalogue Number: 329 A handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: Henry Rosborough SWANZY, Louis WERNER Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1907 Edition: 9th Edition Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: H K Lewis Description Of Item: 774 pages and 16 pages of book advertisements, 227 black and white figures in text. One folding plate of Snellen's astigmatic fan. Holmgrens' wool test for colour blindness on back paste down Rubber stamp of former owner Andrew Geddes Optical Pty Ltd, Melbourne optometrists Historical Significance: Sir Henry Swanzy (184-1913) received his MD degree at Dublin in 1865 and studied in Berlin under von Graefe before setting up an ophthalmic practice in Dublin. He was President of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK 1897-9 and of the Royal College of Surgeons 1906-8. Swanzy gave the Bowman lecture in 1888 and had earlier written an an Atlas of Ophthalmoscopy 1870. This is an enlarged edition with joint authorship. See First edition Cat No 328 See First edition of this book Cat No 328. Other editions and copies at Cat nos.50, 329, 330, 625 and 3334 Condition: Very good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |