LONGMORE, Surgeon-General Sir. T[homas].
The Illustrated Optical Manual or Handbook of Instructions for the Guidance of Surgeons in Testing Quality and Range of Vision, and in Distinguishing and Dealing with Optical Defects in General.
Description:
pp. xxii, 239, (i), 16 Catalogue. Frontispiece, 74 text figures. Original green cloth, very slight wear to head of spine and lower corners, scattered foxing, a good copy.
*This manual was designed to aid Army surgeons in evaluating optical fitness for soldiers and recruits, for the efficient use of firearms. Longmore had been a surgeon in the Indian Army and had earlier given an excellent description of heat-stroke [Garrison-Morton #2248, 1859].
Longmans, Green. London.
Date Published: 1888. Fourth edition.
Stock No. 56294
Price: £50.00