Optician. Born Cambridge. Aged 17 apprenticed to an optician. Qualified with night-school study and began fitting contact lenses in 1934. Became a world specialist and published an early text book on the subject with F. Dickinson, 1946. Died Bergen.
See also Josef Dallos.
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Keith Clifford Hall
Keith Clifford Hall, FSMC, FAAO, DCLP, 1910 - 1964, pioneer in the fitting of...
From AIM25:"The Western Dispensary was founded in Charles Street, Westminster, in 1789, 'for gratuitously administering advice, medicines and attendance to the poor inhabitants of the City of Westm...
Oculist to the court of Hungary.
Originally established by John Wilder to support psychiatric patients on discharge from hospital at a time when the Mental Health Act meant that psychiatric hospitals were being closed and replaced...
A trustee of Lambeth Savings Bank in or after 1903. He seems to have lived an interesting life: In the 1893 'Proceedings of the Old Bailey' we found a witness: ROBERT GALBRAITH REID: "I am a regis...
Area in the roof of St Thomas Apostle Church where the apothecaries of St Thomas's hospital stored and cured herbs for medicinal purposes. It is open to the public on most days from 10.30 am to 5 pm.
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