Clinical Physiology of the Eye.

8vo. xvii, 406 pp. 92 figs., index; minor penciling pp. 233, 289. Original blind and gilt-stamped dark blue cloth; rubbed. Signature of George A. Bennett. Very good. First edition. "In 1931 [sic should be 1933] Adler published "Clinical Physiology of the Eye," the first textbook in English dealing with the topic." AJO Obituary. Adler studied at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, interning at the University of Pennsylvania hospital, then became an instructor of physiology at the University. It was there that he began his association with George de Schweinitz. / "In 1933, Dr. Adler became attending surgeon at The Wills Eye Hospital, a position he held until 1937. At that time he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology . . ." Albert & Scheie [p. 313]. / PROVENANCE: George Allen Bennett, A.B., M.D. (1904-1958), Dean, Professor of Anatomy, Head of the Department and Director of the Daniel Baugh Institute of Anatomy. Adler took his degree at the University of Pennsylvania (medicine, 1919). He was chairman of the ophthalmology department there (1937-1960). He served as editor-in-chief of the American Medical Association's Archives of Ophthalmology. His reputation was big enough to draw the attention of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, who flew him there and later gifted to him an inscribed gold watch that Adler wore with pride. See: Julius Hirschberg, Alfred Schett, Saiichi Mishima, The History of Ophthalmology, 2001. Volume 12, Part 7 - Page 6; Daniel Myron Albert, Harold Glendon Scheie, A History of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, Springfield: Thomas, 1965. American J of Ophthalmology, October 1987, Volume 104, Issue 4, Page 448. First Edition.

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Publisher: Macmillan, 1933.

Year: 1933

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Binding: Softcover

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