COLOUR BLINDNESS AND DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT IN OFFICERS AND SAILORS OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE. A Criticism of the Board of Trade Tests

Published by James Thin

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Octavo, 20 pages; x-library in a pamphlet binder. Very Scarce. Bickerton was an Oculist at the Liverpool Royal Academy, house surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, and an ophthalmic surgeon. "When the facts of the case have been fully and clearly stated, as they will be stated by Dr. Farquharson, it will be surprising if an intelligent public do not command that attention so urgently needed, and compel the Department, which has the proud privilege of providing for the safety of the sea travelling community of the best maritime country in the world, to do, what should have been done many years ago, its duty." . "When will the Board of Trade understand that to ask a candidate to give the name of a colour is a test not of the colour sense but of education in the names of colours, and that to rely explicitly on the correct NAMING of colours opens the road for an utterly wrong conclusion?" "It was largely owing to his advocacy that the Board of Trade revised its rules in regard to tests of sailors' eyesight; he was too a pioneer in advocating the irrigation treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum." - Royal College of Surgeons of England.…

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Title
COLOUR BLINDNESS AND DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT IN OFFICERS AND SAILORS OF THE MERCANTILE MARINE. A Criticism of the Board of Trade Tests
Author
BICKERTON, Thomas H
Publisher
James Thin
Condition
Good
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color colour blindness, maritime nautical, Medicine, opthalmalogy, safety

Thomas J. Joyce And Company

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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …

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