An introduction to the prescribing and fitting of contact lenses
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Catalogue Number: 176
An introduction to the prescribing and fitting of contact lenses
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: DICKINSON Frank, HALL, K G Clifford
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1946
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Hammond, Hammond and Company Ltd
Description Of Item: Original cloth cover, 220 x 145mm, original dust wrapper, 168 pp, 10 colour photos, 55 half tone photos and 32 diagrams.
Historical Significance: This is a very early text book devoted solely to contact lenses written by two English optometrists. See also other early books on contact lenses: Obrig 1942 (# 95), Dickinson 1946 (#176), Bier 1953 (#494), Mandell 1965 (# 507), Thomas 1960? (#558), Anderson 1944 (#575)
Condition: Good but dust jacket torn at top
Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection
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