Spectacles: Their Uses and Abuses in Long and Short Sightedness; and the Pathological Conditions Resulting from Their Irrational Employment
 Catalogue Number: 32 Spectacles: Their Uses and Abuses in Long and Short Sightedness; and the Pathological Conditions Resulting from Their Irrational Employment Category: Book Sub-Category: Significant book (Aitken collection) Author: SICHEL, Jules. Translated by Henry W WILLIAMS Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1859 Edition: First edition Time Period: 19th C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Boston Publisher/Manufacturer: Phillips, Sampson and Co Description Of Item: Rebound in blue cloth, 8vo ; 202 pages. Historical Significance: Dr. Sichel (1802-1868), of the faculties of Berlin and Paris; Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Eye; Officer of The Legion of Honor, Etc. Etc. Etc. Sichel is credited with bringing modern ophthalmology to France from Austria and Germany.Translated from the French, by permission of the author, by Henry W. Williams, M. D, Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. [1821-1895], and a founder (1864) and president (1868-75) of the American Ophthalmological Society. How Acquired: Donated by Michael Aitken, honorary archivist Date Acquired: 1989 Condition: Good Location: Nathan Library. Aitken collection |