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First refraction hospital in the world

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Formed as the London Refraction Hospital (or the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians), became the Institute of Optometry in 1988.

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First refraction hospital in the world

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Institute of Optometry

In the correspondence pages of the 1927 BMJ the man named on the plaque, Fran...

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