Slit lamp microscopy of the living eye
 Catalogue Number: 274 Slit lamp microscopy of the living eye Category: Book Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection) Author: F E KOBY Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1925 Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: J and A Churchill Description Of Item: Original red cloth cover, 221 pages, 43 illustrations. Translated from the French by Chas Goulden and Clara L Harris. Historical Significance: Dr F Ed Koby was a French ophthalmologist. This is an early text book on the slit lamp. The slit lamp was devised by Aubert 1891 but did not get widely accepted for some years. Doggart author of another early definitive text says that some ophthalmologists went to Switzerland after World War 1 to look at the then new slit lamp but many regarded it as an unnecessary luxury. They said a loupe was as good. Doggart, was still arguing its value in 1948 in a lecture to the College of Surgeons London. (Br J Ophthal 1948; 32: 232-247) How Acquired: Donated by CWV optometrists Launceston, former practice of Eric Padman Date Acquired: 1/08/2005 Condition: Very good Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection |