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This was never published, although the burden of it was presented at the joint Australian and New Zealand Ophthalmological Society meeting in 1975, and extracted in their respective journals, and also in the British Journal of Hospital Medicine in February 1980.
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Trevor-Roper, P. The private eye. Eye 2, 682–695 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1988.125
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