Philip L.
Salvatori served
in the US Army Medical Department as a surgical assistant and in the US Navy as
a pharmacist's mate.He had a
short spell as professional boxer, studied for two years in
Rome
and spent two years at the
New York
Business
School.He then had a brief period as
secretary to an ophthalmologist before becoming an ophthalmic dispenser and
setting up his own firm in
New York.In 1935 Salvatori became founder
and first President of the Society of Dispensing Opticians USA.He wrote A Scientific Method of
Fitting Contact Lenses in 1947, The Story of Contact Lenses in 1960 and was co-author with Obrig for
the third edition of Contact Lenses in
1957.
