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The Errors of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye and their treatment

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Catalogue Number: 4349
The Errors of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye and their treatment
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: CLARKE, Ernest
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1918
Edition: 4th
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Bailiere, Tindall and Cox
Description Of Item: Original wine cloth, 190 x 125 mm, 243 pages, plus advertisements, 92 black and white figures in text. Folded reading chart tucked in at end. Bookplate of Wright Library of the Australian Optometrical Association on front paste down plus folded advertising leaflet for Wappler May ophthalmoscope tucked in front.
Historical Significance: This is the 4th edition of a work first published in 1903. It deals mostly with refractive errors and ocular muscle imbalance. The illustrations include several in colour and there are some good representations of contemporary instrumentation. Ernest Clarke CVO, MD (1881), MD (1885), FRCS (1894) (1857 - 1933) was a successful ophthalmologist practising in London and with appointments to several hospitals. See other books by Clarke Cat No 156 and 158.
How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia
Date Acquired: 27/2/2023
Condition: Very Good
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note

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