Lecture notes, typescripts and other papers

Date:
1940s-1960s
Reference:
PP/FDN/C/19
Part of:
Frank Dickinson (1906-1978)
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Description

Papers relating to programme of Instruction in Contact Lens Technique at Glasgow Refraction Hospital and Heriot-Watt College , Edinburgh 1947 including:

Schedule, introduction & notes

Case records on back of FD's Personal Invitation card from this period

Lists of participants in these courses

Typescripts and other papers including:

'There have been many notable advances in the technique of refraction…'

Recent Developments in CL Technique [dated 'Liverpool 24.9.59']

E .Kent L.A, Nov 11 1959

The Centrim Microlens [dated 4.11.59]

Contact Lenses in Great Britain: present-day trends and developments [dated 12.59]

Contact Lenses: examination routine

To: Pennsylvania Optometrist Contact Lens Section ['This question of centre thickness…' dated 21.7.60]

Cardiff, April 1958: Development of the Microlens

Observation on the Fitting of Microlenses without Keratometry [dated Aug 1957]

A New Approach to the Fitting of Microlenses in Astigmatism [ 12.59 with second draft marked 'Berlin 1960']

Contact Lenses in Southern Africa [American Academy of Optometry paper Dec 1959]

Recent Developments in Contact Lens Education Liverpool 24.9.59

Economics of Contact Lenses [notes dated 1.10.59]

Optometric Experiences Abroad [dated 'Bangor L.A. 2.61']

Summary of lecture by Robert Graham, Urfahn 1958 [dated 'Bradford 19.2.59]

Recent Developmenst in Contact Lens Technique [lecture at Harrogate 1961]

An Eye saved by a Contact Lens

Twenty-Five Years of Contact Lens Development [dated 'Belfast 16 March 1960']

Corneal Lenses: The Substance Factor & its Influence on Performance [marked 'Berlin 1960']

Expedients in the Correction of Presbyopia by Corneal Lenses

The Contribution of Contact Lens Technique to Refractive Diagnosis [marked 'Newcastle 7.11.55 New version Bristol Nov 1960']

Obituary: Dr Frederick W. Sinn

Contact Lenses

Contact Lenses: radio talk

Introduction to Lecture-Demonstration to East Yorks. Optical Society, November 4-5, 1947, at Hull and York

The Wonder of the Contact Lens [''submitted: Forum Feb 20.46']

Y.O.S, Leeds, 15 October 1959 [address to Yorkshire Optical Society]

Various typescripts of published material:

The Correction of Refractive Errors by Contact Lenses [book chapter in The Principles and Practice of Refraction by G.H.Giles, 1960] + pages of revisions; Contact Lenses: The Substance Factor & its Influence on Performance [BJPO 7/60 - differs from Berlin paper above]; Some Corneal Changes associated with the Wearing of Contact Lenses [BJPO 7/60]; Congress of the ISCLS, Philadelphia 1962 - top copy]; The Doctor Title in Optometry {Optician 24.3.61]

2 letters to FD: from Obrig Laboratories with catalogue 1948; about the German optical industry in 1946 Patent Specification, Patent Office, London, applied for by Norman Bier 25 January 1945

Publication/Creation

1940s-1960s

Physical description

1 file

Notes

Description based on handlist by Peter Dickinson, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.

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