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Glasgow Refraction Hospital
Europe: United Kingdom, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Glasgow
January 1931
paper
overall: 251 mm x 158 mm
Issue of an optometry journal published by the GRH. Portrait format, printed in black and white on 20 pages, with soft end papers, stapled. Front cover bears emblems of a Scottish lion, Edinburgh Castle and a saint. Contents include list of office bearers and committees 1930-31, a review of Pascal's 'Modern Retinoscopy', article on Parallactic Displacement in Ophthalmoscopy, questions from the Qualifying Students Examinations December 1930, discussion 'Is Hospital Work Worth While?', a feature and photograph of the Amblyo-Corrector. Full-page advertisements for: London Optical Company (Linfield Kerascope), Nitsche & Gunther Optical Co (1927) Ltd (Punctiform Torics - 'Punctiscus' Lenses), Kirk Brothers (charming display model), The Hadley Company (Hadley Central Trupos Ranelagh) and, on back cover J. R. Fleming Ltd (first class Rx service, including image of the Head office in Clerkenwell). Smaller advertisements for Scott & Madill (Union Improved Astigmatic Chart), Royal Optical Co, George Culver Ltd, Willmotts Ltd, Butterworths (Edinburgh) Ltd, Lever Brothers ('Accuracy').
2019.806/7
Gift of the late Mr Thomas McConnochie, via Dr Kathryn McConnochie, 2019