J. Milton Johnston, Founder and Editor of the First Exclusively Optometric Periodical
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J. Milton Johnston (1844-1930) founded and edited a periodical titled The Johnston Eye Echo. The bi-monthly periodical was the first with content that was exclusively optometric. This article contains a brief biographical sketch and discusses the 1892 book, which compiled and expanded upon some of the material that Johnston published in the periodical.
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