Catalogue Number: 313 An international system of ophthalmic practice Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: Walter Lytle PYLE, A KNAPP Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1918 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Philadephia Publisher/Manufacturer: P Blakiston Description Of Item: Original cloth, 509 pages, 32 illustrations Historical Significance: This book relates ophthalmology to general medicine. Originally published by WL Pyle alone in 1910. Walter L Pyle AM, MD (1871-1921) was an ophthalmologist. He published with G M Gould 'Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed' (1896) which has been much republished How Acquired: Donated by CWC Optometrists, formerly the practice of Eric Padman, sometime National President OAA Date Acquired: 1/08/2005 Condition: Very good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |