How to use the ophthalmoscope
 Catalogue Number: 4348 How to use the ophthalmoscope Category: Book Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection) Author: BROWNE, Edgar A Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1883 Edition: 2nd Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London Publisher/Manufacturer: Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London Description Of Item: Original royal blue cloth, 195 x 130 mm, gilt lettered, 115 pages and one page appendix, 35 black and white figures in text. Bookplate of Wright Library of Australian Optometrical Association on front paste down 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 FRCS Edin 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 Infirmary in Liverpool. He later specialised in diseases of the eye and became consulting surgeon at the Eye and Ear Infirmary and was lecturer in ophthalmology in Liverpool University. How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia Date Acquired: 27/2/2023 Condition: Good Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection |