Catalogue Number: 221 Diseases of the eye Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: Marmaduke Stephen MAYOU Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1912 Edition: 2nd Edition Time Period: 1900 to 1939 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton Description Of Item: Original cloth, 306 pp, 124 figs in text and 5 plates 4 being double and coloured. On fly leaf rubber stamp of Wood (Melbourne optometry firm) and stamp of Victorian College of Optometry Historical Significance: A popular text first published in 1908 and which had four further editions, 2nd in 1912, 3rd in 1920 and then published as Mayou's Diseases of the eye in 1933. Marmaduke Stephen Matou FRCS (1876-1934) was a leading ophthalmologist of his day. See his obituary BMJ 1934; 2(3838) 734. Condition: Good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |