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The Advantages of Soft-Lite Lenses in Practice
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pamphlet
Soft-Lite Lens Company
North America: USA, New York, New York
1947
paper
overall: 222 mm x 151 mm

Promotional pamphlet issued by a lens company comprising a brief history of absorptive lenses, including the development of Crookes lenses and of the Soft-Lite brand, description of Soft-Lite ophthalmic glass, importance of neutral transmission in the prescription, ultra-violet absorption, prescribing, how to measure the need for light absoprtion (glare susceptibility), the properties of Soft-Lite lenses and their significance, list of complete lens line: Soft-Lite, Standard Soft-Lite, 'A' Ultex, Duo-site, Soft-Lite Panoptik, Soft-Lite Panoptik Trifocal, 'AA' Ultex, 'B' Ultex, 'E' Ultex, 'L' Ultex, Ful-Vue, Soft-Lite 'D', Soft-Lite 'F', Soft-Lite 'C'.


2016.398

Gift of Mr Alan Turner-Smith on behalf of Mr Eric Wright FCOptom, 2016



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