Mann Thomas

1937 · réf. 22058 — Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology 1937. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth. Very good; some rubbing to the cloth. Royal 8vo 12. 1 - 444 pp. and illustrations throughout. “After qualifying Mann decided to specialize in ophthalmology and took her first post under Leslie Paton at St Mary's becoming FRCS in 1924. She also held several teaching appointments while she progressed up the ladder towards consultant ophthalmologist status reaching the highest point in 1927 with appointment as senior surgeon on the staff of Moorfields Eye Hospital London the first woman ever to do so. At the same time she established a Harley Street practice and consolidated herself as a leading clinical ophthalmologist in London but still carried on her developmental studies and teaching including the diploma course in Oxford. In this period up to the Second World War she learned and promoted the then new technique of slit-lamp microscopy of the eye applying it both to patients and to animals in the London Zoo. She was also instrumental in bringing to London in 1938 Josef Dallos the Hungarian pioneer of glass contact lenses just ahead of the Nazi take-over of Hungary and with him she established the first contact lens centre in the United Kingdom… At the instigation of Sir Hugh Cairns Mann moved to Oxford in 1941 to undertake the clinical training of medical students diverted from London and there she was appointed to Margaret Ogilvy's readership in ophthalmology as well as a personal chair the first woman ever to hold the title of professor in the University of Oxford and a professorial fellowship in St Hugh's College… In this period she was the first to use penicillin to treat ocular infection.” See ODNB; G-M #5987. Cambridge Univ. Press Published for the British Journal of Ophthalmology hardcover books