Aids to ophthalmology
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Catalogue Number: 199
Aids to ophthalmology
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: HARMAN Nathaniel Bishop
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1923
Edition: 6th Edition
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Bailliere Tindall and Cox
Description Of Item: Original cloth, 226 pp plus book advertisements, 163 illustrations
Historical Significance: This is a basic but popular manual of the early 20th C for ophthalmological practice that ran to 8 ediitons. Dr Harman (1869-1945) MC BCh Cantab FRCS 1898 was a well known ophthalmologist who was active in professional affairs, a well regarded anatomy teacher and the inventor of the diaphram test for binocular vision in 1909. See his Obit Brit J Ophthal 1945; 29: 440-441.
Condition: Very good
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note
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