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Diseases of the eye A manual for students

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Catalogue Number: 4360
Diseases of the eye A manual for students
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: NETTLESHIP Edward Revised by HOLMES SPICER W T
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1897
Edition: 6th Edition
Time Period: 19th C
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: J and A Churchill
Description Of Item: Original green cloth cover, g135 x 186 mm, 465 pages and 16 unnumbered pages of book advertisements. 161 figures in text and one colour chart which is designed to illustrate colours commonly confused with colour vision defects. Bookplate of the Wright Library of the Australian Optometrical Association on front paste down.
Historical Significance: The Museum also holds the third edition. Cat No 298 and the fourth edition Cat No 2382. Edward Nettleship FRCS FRS (1845-1913) is described in JAMA 1970;214:751-2 as a veterinarian, dermatologist, ophthalmologist and geneticist. He was a prolific writer and has 2 syndromes bearing his name. He had an interest in colour vision. He was to be a farmer and attended the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester and the Royal Veterinary College. He obtained a licentiate of the London Society of Apothecaries before studying medicine. He was ophthalmic surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital for 2 decades and had a large private practice in Wimpole Street. He was inspector of poor schools and worked on incidence of eye disease and ophthalmia, which led to parliamentary reforms.
How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia
Date Acquired: 6/3/2023
Condition: Good
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note

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