logologo-optometry

How to Use the Ophthalmoscope: Being Elementary Instructions in Ophthalmoscopy: Arranged for the Use of Students

Catalogue Number: 151
How to Use the Ophthalmoscope: Being Elementary Instructions in Ophthalmoscopy: Arranged for the Use of Students
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection)
Author: BROWNE, Edgar Althelstone
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1891
Edition: 4th Edition
Time Period: 19th C
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co Ltd
Description Of Item: Original cloth cover, 8vo, 116 pages, numerous diagrams in text
Historical Significance: This is an elementary but early guide for students on the use of the ophthalmoscope for the detection of eye disease and other ocular anomalies. It was popular book that ran to a number of ediitons. Edgar Browne FRCSEdin MCh Liverpool Hon causa (1841 - 1917) began the study of medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.M. in 1864,of L.S.A. in 1865, and shortly afterwards settled in general practice in Liverpool. He was a demonstrator of anatomy with Dr. T. R. Glynn at the School of Medicine in Liverpool, and wasappointed surgeon to St. George's Hospital for Skin Diseases and assistant surgeon to the Eye and Ear Infirnary in Liverpool. He later specialised in diseases of the eye and became consulting surgeon at the Eye and Ear Infirmary annd was lecturer in ophthalmology in Liverpool University.
How Acquired: Not known
Condition: Good
Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection

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