American Journal of Ophthalmology

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF

OPHTHALMOLOGY THIRD

SERIES

FOUNDED

BY

VOLUME

EDWARD

JACKSON

4 4

JULY-DECEMBER, 1 9 5 7

EDITORIAL

STAFF

Editor-in-Chief Consulting Editor C . W O O D S , Consulting Editor

DERRICK V A I L ,

L A W R E N C E T . POST, ALAN BERNARD BECKER

DONALD J. LYLE

WILLIAM L . BENEDICT

W I L L I A M A.

F R E D E R I C K C . CORDES

P . ROBB

MANN

MCDONALD

SIR STEWART D U K E - E L D E R

A . EDWARD

EDWIN B. DUNPHY

FRANK W . NEWELL

F. HERBERT HAESSLER

JOHN V . V . NICHOLLS

PARKER H E A T H

ALGERNON B . REESE

S. R O D M A N I R V I N E

PHILLIPS THYGESON

JAMES E . LEBENSOHN

M . U R I B E TRONCOSO

KATHERINE

MAUMENEE

Manuscript Editor Advertising and Business Manager

FERGUSON CHALKLEY,

MILDRED S K I N N E R ,

COLLABORATORS EUGENE M . BLAKE, New Haven; FREDERICK C . BLODI, Iowa City; SYLVAN BRANDON, Houston; JAMES W . BRENNAN, Buffalo; WILLIAM C . CACCAMISE, Rochester, New Yorti; ALSTON CALLAHAN, Birming­ ham; BEULAH CUSHMAN, Chicago; RAY K . DAILY, Houston; ALICE R . DEUTSCH, Memphis; OLGA FERRER, Havana, Cuba; LAWRENCE L . GARNER, Milwauttee; IRWIN E . GAYNON, Milwaukee; BERTHA T . HAESSLER, Milwaukee; HARRY HORWICH, New York; MORRIS KAPLAN, Denver; PETER C . KRONFELD, Chicago; JAMES E . LEBENSOHN, Chicago; JOHN C . LOCKE, Montreal, Canada; R . T . LOWE, Melbourne, Australia; WALTER MAYER, Richmond, Virginia; PAUL W . MILES, Saint Louis; YUKIHIKO MITSUI, Kumamoto, Japan; ERNST SCHMERL, Toledo; THEODORE M . SHAPIRA, Chicago; DAVID SHOCK, Chicago; OLGA SITCHEVSKA, New York; JOHN J . STERN, Utica, New York; V . TABONE, Juliano, Malta; PHILLIPS THYGESON, San Jose, California; GEORGE S . TYNER, Denver; A. URRETS-ZAVALIA, JR., Cordoba, Argentina.

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