Adler's Physiology of the Eye: Clinical Application

Historical Significance: The first edition of this book written by Francis Heed Adler was published in 1933 with the title 'Clinical Physiology of the Eye'. It was renamed 'Physiology of the Eye: Clinical Application' from the 2nd to the 4th editions. From the 5th edition the title was changed to 'Adler's Physiology of the Eye: Clinical Application' until the 11th edition published in 2011 with Leonard Levin, editor. An online 12th edition was published in 2014. This book was a standard text for optometry and ophthalmology students over many years, although its bias to ophthalmological interest and its superficiality in some aspects made it less suitable for optometry. Adler was born 1895 in Philadelphia, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and embarked on a career of physiology and ophthalmology. He was much honoured in his profession and received the Proctor medal in 1968, awarded by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology to honour outstanding research of senior scientists in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology.