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über Die Struktur Des Uvea-Trabekel-Systems
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stemming from his collection of 857 eyes re moved at autopsy, or in vivo from patients with injuries to the globe and retrobulbar or intraocular tumors. The author has applied a variety of more or less routine staining methods, histochemical methods and methods making use of po larization microscopic techniques. He has also prepared electron micrographs but only light microscopic pictures are reproduced. All reproductions are in black and white so that the various features lack the color differentiation produced by the different staining methods. It is all the more regrettable that none of the pictures contain letters or BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN, vol. 26, no. 2, other symbols pointing to the several tissues 1970. Recent research on the retina. Brit or features presented. In many instances this ish Council, London, 1970. Paperbound, would have been very useful to the readers. 185 pages, black and white illustrations. The material at the author's' disposal came Price : $6.50. from patients five to 91 years of age. This The British Medical Bulletin appears gave him an opportunity to study the tissue three times each year. The May, 1970, issue changes due to advancing age of which he is devoted to recent research on the retina gives an interesting discussion. under the aegis of Norman Ashton, chair The book is well printed and the figures man of the planning committee, and E. S. are as well reproduced as the material per Perkins, scientific editor. The monograph mitted. It will be very useful to anyone look presents a wide survey of studies concerning ing for a complete, up-to-date review of the the retina, varying from anatomy and em literature in this field. bryology to physiology and biochemistry to Hermann M. Burian clinical disease. The entire volume is well done and highly recommended. SYPHILIS AND THE EYE. Edited by Bernard Frank W. Newell Schwartz. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1970. Clothbound, 299 pages plus bibliography, black and white illustrations. ÜBER DIE STRUKTUR DES UVEA-TRABEKELPrice: $19.75. SYSTEMS. By Dr. med. habil L. Valu. (Volume 38 of Abhandlungen aus dem Argyll Robertson described the character Gebiete der Augenheilkunde). Leipzig, istic pupillary reactions of Tabes dorsalis in Georg Thieme, 1970. Paperbound, 69 1869. This volume includes the material pub pages, 50 black and white illustrations, lished in The Survey of Ophthalmology in their November, 1969, issue. To this has four charts. Price: 18.50 marks. been added 2433 citations accumulated by This monograph is in essence a concise the indefatigable Irene Loewenfeld. Un but quite complete survey of the literature of doubtedly, the book will become a standard the past two decades concerned with the finereference source for material concerning structure of the tissues making up and sur syphilis of the eye. rounding the angle of the anterior chamber Frank W. Newell of the human eye. The author's contribution consists mainly of the illustrative sections,
and J. Haut, with the collaboration of J. Denis-Lassale, M. Kastler, P. Dhermy, S. Limon, and F. Rousselie present the 1970 review of uveitis. It is an up-to-the-minute review of the literature on ocular hypersensitivity, the anatomy-pathology of uveitis, the laboratory and diagnostic tests and vari ous clinical types of uveitis, and the report concludes with 89 pages of references and a glossary. This monograph and, indeed, all monographs in this series are highly recom mended. Frank W. Newell
BOOK REVIEWS
447
stemming from his collection of 857 eyes re moved at autopsy, or in vivo from patients with injuries to the globe and retrobulbar or intraocular tumors. The author has applied a variety of more or less routine staining methods, histochemical methods and methods making use of po larization microscopic techniques. He has also prepared electron micrographs but only light microscopic pictures are reproduced. All reproductions are in black and white so that the various features lack the color differentiation produced by the different staining methods. It is all the more regrettable that none of the pictures contain letters or BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN, vol. 26, no. 2, other symbols pointing to the several tissues 1970. Recent research on the retina. Brit or features presented. In many instances this ish Council, London, 1970. Paperbound, would have been very useful to the readers. 185 pages, black and white illustrations. The material at the author's' disposal came Price : $6.50. from patients five to 91 years of age. This The British Medical Bulletin appears gave him an opportunity to study the tissue three times each year. The May, 1970, issue changes due to advancing age of which he is devoted to recent research on the retina gives an interesting discussion. under the aegis of Norman Ashton, chair The book is well printed and the figures man of the planning committee, and E. S. are as well reproduced as the material per Perkins, scientific editor. The monograph mitted. It will be very useful to anyone look presents a wide survey of studies concerning ing for a complete, up-to-date review of the the retina, varying from anatomy and em literature in this field. bryology to physiology and biochemistry to Hermann M. Burian clinical disease. The entire volume is well done and highly recommended. SYPHILIS AND THE EYE. Edited by Bernard Frank W. Newell Schwartz. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1970. Clothbound, 299 pages plus bibliography, black and white illustrations. ÜBER DIE STRUKTUR DES UVEA-TRABEKELPrice: $19.75. SYSTEMS. By Dr. med. habil L. Valu. (Volume 38 of Abhandlungen aus dem Argyll Robertson described the character Gebiete der Augenheilkunde). Leipzig, istic pupillary reactions of Tabes dorsalis in Georg Thieme, 1970. Paperbound, 69 1869. This volume includes the material pub pages, 50 black and white illustrations, lished in The Survey of Ophthalmology in their November, 1969, issue. To this has four charts. Price: 18.50 marks. been added 2433 citations accumulated by This monograph is in essence a concise the indefatigable Irene Loewenfeld. Un but quite complete survey of the literature of doubtedly, the book will become a standard the past two decades concerned with the finereference source for material concerning structure of the tissues making up and sur syphilis of the eye. rounding the angle of the anterior chamber Frank W. Newell of the human eye. The author's contribution consists mainly of the illustrative sections,
and J. Haut, with the collaboration of J. Denis-Lassale, M. Kastler, P. Dhermy, S. Limon, and F. Rousselie present the 1970 review of uveitis. It is an up-to-the-minute review of the literature on ocular hypersensitivity, the anatomy-pathology of uveitis, the laboratory and diagnostic tests and vari ous clinical types of uveitis, and the report concludes with 89 pages of references and a glossary. This monograph and, indeed, all monographs in this series are highly recom mended. Frank W. Newell