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that he injected cortisone into the anterior chamber at the end of the operation to avoid iris reaction. Alice R. Deutsch.
By Meyer Wiener, M.D., and Harold G. Scheie, M.D. New York, Grune and Stratton, 1952, third edition. 449 pages. Price: $15.00. Previous editions of this text on ocular surgery have proved extremely popular and this new, third edition, in which Dr. Scheie appears as co-author, undoubtedly will be well received. As in the past, only those pro cedures which the authors utilize and recom mend are included and described. Several chapters have been completely rewritten and a number of new operations described in an effort, for the most part successful, to bring to the reader some of the most modern developments in the field. The text is clearly and simply written and profusely illustrated with excellent drawings so that the book makes an excellent text for the beginner in eye surgery, as well as for the experienced surgeon. Certainly most of the standard operations are included and, while not every acceptable method is de scribed, any surgeon who limits himself to the recommended techniques will find him self equipped with a fairly complete surgical armamentarium. Among the more modern aspects of ocular surgery described are the use of ACTH and cortisone, antibiotics as prophylaxis against operative infection, and such operations as goniotomy and goniopuncture. The intro ductory chapter on the "Basic technics in ophthalmic surgery" is excellent for the neophyte. William A. Mann. SURGERY OF THE EYE.
1639
JOURNAL OF THE ALL-INDIA OPHTHALMO-
volume 1, number 1, April, 1953. Editor, Dr. S..N. Cooper, Laud Mansion, 21, Queens Road, Bombay 4, India. Managing Editor, Dr. Y. K. C. Pandit, Bombay Mutual Buildings, Horn by Road, Bombay 1, India. Yearly sub scription (four issues) : Rs. 12/Overseas, £1 or $3.50. Single copy: Rs. 4/-LOGICAL SOCIETY,
T H E AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHAL
welcomes this newcomer to the field of current ophthalmic literature and wishes it the success that its first issue promises. Consisting of 42 pages, this first number contains four well-written and well-illus trated articles, Indian ophthalmic news, and a 10-page section devoted to a review of the literature. Of particular interest is this sec tion for in it the editors have departed from the abstract forms usually employed in med ical journals and have devised a system of making each abstract a certain length and printing it in a uniform space (3 by 6 inches) so that each review can be clipped and filed for ready reference. In addition, the second page of the Review Section contains a number of one- or two-sentence therapeutic and clinical excerpts from the current litera ture. MOLOGY
On the editorial committee are Tulsi Das, S. N. Mitter, S. P. Gupta, Dukhan Ram, B. K. Das Gupta, Colonel Papatala, G. Zachariah, P. Ramchander, B. K. Narayan Rao, and Victor C. Rambo. Katherine Chalkley.
that he injected cortisone into the anterior chamber at the end of the operation to avoid iris reaction. Alice R. Deutsch.
By Meyer Wiener, M.D., and Harold G. Scheie, M.D. New York, Grune and Stratton, 1952, third edition. 449 pages. Price: $15.00. Previous editions of this text on ocular surgery have proved extremely popular and this new, third edition, in which Dr. Scheie appears as co-author, undoubtedly will be well received. As in the past, only those pro cedures which the authors utilize and recom mend are included and described. Several chapters have been completely rewritten and a number of new operations described in an effort, for the most part successful, to bring to the reader some of the most modern developments in the field. The text is clearly and simply written and profusely illustrated with excellent drawings so that the book makes an excellent text for the beginner in eye surgery, as well as for the experienced surgeon. Certainly most of the standard operations are included and, while not every acceptable method is de scribed, any surgeon who limits himself to the recommended techniques will find him self equipped with a fairly complete surgical armamentarium. Among the more modern aspects of ocular surgery described are the use of ACTH and cortisone, antibiotics as prophylaxis against operative infection, and such operations as goniotomy and goniopuncture. The intro ductory chapter on the "Basic technics in ophthalmic surgery" is excellent for the neophyte. William A. Mann. SURGERY OF THE EYE.
1639
JOURNAL OF THE ALL-INDIA OPHTHALMO-
volume 1, number 1, April, 1953. Editor, Dr. S..N. Cooper, Laud Mansion, 21, Queens Road, Bombay 4, India. Managing Editor, Dr. Y. K. C. Pandit, Bombay Mutual Buildings, Horn by Road, Bombay 1, India. Yearly sub scription (four issues) : Rs. 12/Overseas, £1 or $3.50. Single copy: Rs. 4/-LOGICAL SOCIETY,
T H E AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHAL
welcomes this newcomer to the field of current ophthalmic literature and wishes it the success that its first issue promises. Consisting of 42 pages, this first number contains four well-written and well-illus trated articles, Indian ophthalmic news, and a 10-page section devoted to a review of the literature. Of particular interest is this sec tion for in it the editors have departed from the abstract forms usually employed in med ical journals and have devised a system of making each abstract a certain length and printing it in a uniform space (3 by 6 inches) so that each review can be clipped and filed for ready reference. In addition, the second page of the Review Section contains a number of one- or two-sentence therapeutic and clinical excerpts from the current litera ture. MOLOGY
On the editorial committee are Tulsi Das, S. N. Mitter, S. P. Gupta, Dukhan Ram, B. K. Das Gupta, Colonel Papatala, G. Zachariah, P. Ramchander, B. K. Narayan Rao, and Victor C. Rambo. Katherine Chalkley.