Contact lenses: a textbook for practitioners and students
 Catalogue Number: 2513 Contact lenses: a textbook for practitioners and students Category: Book Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection) Author: STONE Janet, PHILLIPS Anthony John Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1971 Edition: 1st edition Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Barrie and Jenkins Description Of Item: Original dust cover, original navy blue cloth covers, 240 x 174 mm, 507 pages, 221 black and white figures in text, 31 colour plates Historical Significance: Janet` Stone FBOAHD, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP and Anthony Phillips MPhil, FBOAHD, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP were English optometrists who took a leading role in the field of contact lenses. This book was an important textbook in its time and had several editions, the last in 1981. Phillips published further books one under the simple title of 'Contact lenses' as co-editor with Lynne Speedwell, the most recent being a 5th edition published in 2006. Anthony Phillips migrated to Australia in 1982 to settle in Adelaide, where he established a specialist contact lens practice and was an adjust professor at Flinders University Medical School. How Acquired: Donated by Harold Barton, Melbourne optometrist Date Acquired: Sep 2014 Condition: Very good, except torn wrapper Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection |