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Cyclodialysis
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dition which has been recognized as very unsatisfactory for treatment. Most of us are not mentally or finan cially fitted for reseach work. How ever, we should be eager to follow the results obtained by enthusiasts in the field of physical therapy. When some new method is proven to possess merit above that of the older methods of treatment we should become familiar with it and add it to our sum total of knowledge for combatting disease. JOHN
H . HARTER.
Seattle Cyclodialysis. To the Editor: In the April 1927 number of the Journal, there appeared an article by W. A. Stoutenborough entitled "Cyclo dialysis upon the Eyes of Rabbits." From an experimental study of the operation performed upon the eyes of fifteen rabbits, he drew conclusions of a most far-reaching character. These conclusions would tend to discredit the operation in its entirety. Possibly, the
language in which the conclusions were couched was unfortunate in the phraseology; possibly, the author's conclusions were based exclusively upon the insufficient animal experi ments reported; and possibly, the au thor has had little or no clinical experi ence with the operation in question. But certain it is, that the clinical re sults of cyclodialysis in properly se lected cases of simple glaucoma belie Dr. Stoutenborough's conclusions. It is to be hoped that a careful re view of the published clinical experi ences with cyclodialysis, combined with a realization of the fact that the experimental work was done upon ani mals in whom glaucoma never exists, will lead Dr. Stoutenborough to mod ify his condemnation of a procedure, that in the hands of experienced men has proven itself as a distinct forward step in the armamentarium of the oph thalmologist. Very sincerely yours, Chicago, 111. HARRY S. GRADLE.
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dition which has been recognized as very unsatisfactory for treatment. Most of us are not mentally or finan cially fitted for reseach work. How ever, we should be eager to follow the results obtained by enthusiasts in the field of physical therapy. When some new method is proven to possess merit above that of the older methods of treatment we should become familiar with it and add it to our sum total of knowledge for combatting disease. JOHN
H . HARTER.
Seattle Cyclodialysis. To the Editor: In the April 1927 number of the Journal, there appeared an article by W. A. Stoutenborough entitled "Cyclo dialysis upon the Eyes of Rabbits." From an experimental study of the operation performed upon the eyes of fifteen rabbits, he drew conclusions of a most far-reaching character. These conclusions would tend to discredit the operation in its entirety. Possibly, the
language in which the conclusions were couched was unfortunate in the phraseology; possibly, the author's conclusions were based exclusively upon the insufficient animal experi ments reported; and possibly, the au thor has had little or no clinical experi ence with the operation in question. But certain it is, that the clinical re sults of cyclodialysis in properly se lected cases of simple glaucoma belie Dr. Stoutenborough's conclusions. It is to be hoped that a careful re view of the published clinical experi ences with cyclodialysis, combined with a realization of the fact that the experimental work was done upon ani mals in whom glaucoma never exists, will lead Dr. Stoutenborough to mod ify his condemnation of a procedure, that in the hands of experienced men has proven itself as a distinct forward step in the armamentarium of the oph thalmologist. Very sincerely yours, Chicago, 111. HARRY S. GRADLE.