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that the work before us "originally formed the substance of a series of lec tures given to candidates for the Ox ford Diploma of Ophthalmology." Few of us can ever attend the course at Oxford, or either of the systematic courses that are now being given in American institutions; but every one en gaged in ophthalmic practice may obtain and carefully read this work. By so doing he will improve his equipment for practice, in a point in which he will find it was particularly weak. Even one who has given some especial attention to the anatomy of the human orbit, and has made several dissections of the parts, finds much in this work that is new and suggestive. Much excellent investigation has been devoted to the anatomy of the orbit; but no work hitherto published has brought its results together. For the most part these have been buried in journals and transactions devoted to anatomy and physiology ;• and those who could make practical use of the observations have not known of their existence. Of the 195 illustrations, mostly orig inal, not one shows an instrument or piece of apparatus bearing the author's name. It is a surprise to find how much of importance such illustrations can teach. In some of them a whole lesson stands out at a glance; as in the photographs of the surface of the or bital region, pp. 8 and 171, on which are outlined the important deeper structures, in such a way as to show their rela tions to surface landmarks at once, and impress them clearly on the memory. While part IV, the cerebral connec tions of the nerves, takes the reader out of the orbit, and is properly termed an appendix, it admirably supplements the account of the nerves given in the preceding part, on the orbital contents. Largely by means of the 8 illustrations it contains, it gives in 18 pages a very clear conception of the intricate ana tomic arrangement of the visual and ocular motor nerve tracts. On every account we welcome this addition to ophthalmic literature.
E. J.
Transactions of the Pacific Coast Otc» Ophthalmological Society. Ninth annual meeting at Seattle, Wash., July, 1921. Paper cover, 155 pages. Published by authority of the Executive Committee. [See also P. 241.] This society is the organization of the ophthalmologists of seven states, having an area greater than that of the combined European countries, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Switzer land and Italy; with seven cities of over 100,000 population each; and a population better able to support good ophthalmologists than that of any country of Europe. This region is new and lacks scientific institutions; but it has some of the best trained ophthal mologists in the world, and some of their best scientific observations are published in these transactions. It ought not to surprise us to find here as good papers and discussions as ap pear in any society proceedings. . Printed in type of the same size, with an equal number of illustrations, this volume would be about the same size as that of the American Ophthalmolog ical Society transactions. Of the papers and discussions, about one-third refer to matters of ophthalmic interest, rather less to oto-laryngology, and nearly half are of interest in both of those special branches. The absence of any table of contents or index con stitutes a very grave defect for this volume of transactions, that should be useful as a work of reference. E. J. Diseases of the Eye. Ninth Edition, by George E. de Schweinitz, M.D., L.L.D., Prof, of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. 832 pages, 415 illustrations, with 7 colored plates. Philadel phia and London. W. B. Saunders Co. We refer again to this work (see v. 4, p. 786) to illustrate a lesson taught by every text book that runs thru many editions, and maintains its position as a standard authoritative work covering its department of medicine. Such a
BOOK NOTICES
book does not continue to sell, succes sive editions are not called for, simply because it was the best book on the subject. It is kept the best book by the author and publisher going thru the labor of preparing and putting forth successive editions. Ophthalmology is progressing and developing. Only by closely following its progress and development could any book keep the hold on the inter est of the profession, that this one has kept for thirty years. If all the text books continued to reflect the present state of the knowledge and literature of their departments of medicine, the profession at large would be less de pendent on year books and abstracts for the recent advances with which it is a duty to be familiar. E.J. Transactions of the College of Phy sicians of Philadelphia, Third Se ries, Volume 42, 1920, Edited by Walter G. Elmer, 548 pages, illus trated. Published by the College. This volume interests our readers as containing the proceedings of the Sec tion on Ophthalmology, which have already been published from month to month in this JOUKNAL. These pro ceedings occupy about one-sixth of the volume. In addition to these, there are two papers on arteriosclerosis that are of value to the ophthalmologist who has to bear this condition in mind, in all his ophthalmoscopic examina tions of patients past middle life. There are also three papers on recent therapeutic advances. But this volume is most notable for five papers on Sir William Osier by McCrea, Hare, Burr, Packard and Norris, men who knew him from the days of his teaching in Montreal to his en tertainment of American officers at Ox ford near the close of his life. Of equal interest to a smaller circle of readers is a similar series of papers re garding Horatio C. Wood, by de Schweinitz, Dercum, Hare and Mills, with a posthumous "Reminiscences of an American Pioneer in Experimental Medicine" by Professor Wood himself. E. J.
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BIOGRAPHIC NOTICE. FREDERICK PINSENT MAYNARD.
The three great lights of British Indian Ophthalmology have left India; and one, our distinguished confrere, Lt. Col. Maynard, has finished his earthly life, passing away at Audlem, Cheshire, England, Sept. 30, 1921. He had recently retired from the Indian Medical Service and going to Eng land, practiced at Crewe. He and his wife had made arrangements to attend the International Ophthalmological Congress this year in Washington, and after that to tour America, visiting a number of his old friends in the profes sion. It is sad to think that so gentle a philanthropist, in the direct sense amicus humani generis, should be denied the green autumn of ease and the dignity which he had earned by his splendid service in Calcutta; and especially not to have been given the opportunity to have further elaborated his most im portant contributions to ophthalmol ogy. As with others of the Indian tri umvirate, he had an exceptional oppor tunity in operative ophthalmology dur ing service in India, having done over 14,000 cataract operations and thous ands upon thousands of others. Perhaps he was best known for his work on Glaucoma. In addition to this in 1908 he published a most excellent book on Operative Ophthalmology, with a second edition in 1920. He also wrote many papers in medical chan nels, contributing from time to time to the American Journal of Ophthal mology. He received the degree of M.B. Durh., with honors; D.P.H., Cambridge, and F.R.C.S., England. His record in the Indian Medical Service was as follows: 1887 to 1892: Military duty, includ ing Field Service Hazara (Black Mountain) 1891, medal and clasp. 1893 and 1894: Superintendent, Patna Opium Factory (2000 to 3000 work people in busy season). 1895 to 1901: Civil Surgeon of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Patna and Darjeeling, (in charge of civil hospital and special eye wards).
BOOK NOTICES
that the work before us "originally formed the substance of a series of lec tures given to candidates for the Ox ford Diploma of Ophthalmology." Few of us can ever attend the course at Oxford, or either of the systematic courses that are now being given in American institutions; but every one en gaged in ophthalmic practice may obtain and carefully read this work. By so doing he will improve his equipment for practice, in a point in which he will find it was particularly weak. Even one who has given some especial attention to the anatomy of the human orbit, and has made several dissections of the parts, finds much in this work that is new and suggestive. Much excellent investigation has been devoted to the anatomy of the orbit; but no work hitherto published has brought its results together. For the most part these have been buried in journals and transactions devoted to anatomy and physiology ;• and those who could make practical use of the observations have not known of their existence. Of the 195 illustrations, mostly orig inal, not one shows an instrument or piece of apparatus bearing the author's name. It is a surprise to find how much of importance such illustrations can teach. In some of them a whole lesson stands out at a glance; as in the photographs of the surface of the or bital region, pp. 8 and 171, on which are outlined the important deeper structures, in such a way as to show their rela tions to surface landmarks at once, and impress them clearly on the memory. While part IV, the cerebral connec tions of the nerves, takes the reader out of the orbit, and is properly termed an appendix, it admirably supplements the account of the nerves given in the preceding part, on the orbital contents. Largely by means of the 8 illustrations it contains, it gives in 18 pages a very clear conception of the intricate ana tomic arrangement of the visual and ocular motor nerve tracts. On every account we welcome this addition to ophthalmic literature.
E. J.
Transactions of the Pacific Coast Otc» Ophthalmological Society. Ninth annual meeting at Seattle, Wash., July, 1921. Paper cover, 155 pages. Published by authority of the Executive Committee. [See also P. 241.] This society is the organization of the ophthalmologists of seven states, having an area greater than that of the combined European countries, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Switzer land and Italy; with seven cities of over 100,000 population each; and a population better able to support good ophthalmologists than that of any country of Europe. This region is new and lacks scientific institutions; but it has some of the best trained ophthal mologists in the world, and some of their best scientific observations are published in these transactions. It ought not to surprise us to find here as good papers and discussions as ap pear in any society proceedings. . Printed in type of the same size, with an equal number of illustrations, this volume would be about the same size as that of the American Ophthalmolog ical Society transactions. Of the papers and discussions, about one-third refer to matters of ophthalmic interest, rather less to oto-laryngology, and nearly half are of interest in both of those special branches. The absence of any table of contents or index con stitutes a very grave defect for this volume of transactions, that should be useful as a work of reference. E. J. Diseases of the Eye. Ninth Edition, by George E. de Schweinitz, M.D., L.L.D., Prof, of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania, etc. 832 pages, 415 illustrations, with 7 colored plates. Philadel phia and London. W. B. Saunders Co. We refer again to this work (see v. 4, p. 786) to illustrate a lesson taught by every text book that runs thru many editions, and maintains its position as a standard authoritative work covering its department of medicine. Such a
BOOK NOTICES
book does not continue to sell, succes sive editions are not called for, simply because it was the best book on the subject. It is kept the best book by the author and publisher going thru the labor of preparing and putting forth successive editions. Ophthalmology is progressing and developing. Only by closely following its progress and development could any book keep the hold on the inter est of the profession, that this one has kept for thirty years. If all the text books continued to reflect the present state of the knowledge and literature of their departments of medicine, the profession at large would be less de pendent on year books and abstracts for the recent advances with which it is a duty to be familiar. E.J. Transactions of the College of Phy sicians of Philadelphia, Third Se ries, Volume 42, 1920, Edited by Walter G. Elmer, 548 pages, illus trated. Published by the College. This volume interests our readers as containing the proceedings of the Sec tion on Ophthalmology, which have already been published from month to month in this JOUKNAL. These pro ceedings occupy about one-sixth of the volume. In addition to these, there are two papers on arteriosclerosis that are of value to the ophthalmologist who has to bear this condition in mind, in all his ophthalmoscopic examina tions of patients past middle life. There are also three papers on recent therapeutic advances. But this volume is most notable for five papers on Sir William Osier by McCrea, Hare, Burr, Packard and Norris, men who knew him from the days of his teaching in Montreal to his en tertainment of American officers at Ox ford near the close of his life. Of equal interest to a smaller circle of readers is a similar series of papers re garding Horatio C. Wood, by de Schweinitz, Dercum, Hare and Mills, with a posthumous "Reminiscences of an American Pioneer in Experimental Medicine" by Professor Wood himself. E. J.
327
BIOGRAPHIC NOTICE. FREDERICK PINSENT MAYNARD.
The three great lights of British Indian Ophthalmology have left India; and one, our distinguished confrere, Lt. Col. Maynard, has finished his earthly life, passing away at Audlem, Cheshire, England, Sept. 30, 1921. He had recently retired from the Indian Medical Service and going to Eng land, practiced at Crewe. He and his wife had made arrangements to attend the International Ophthalmological Congress this year in Washington, and after that to tour America, visiting a number of his old friends in the profes sion. It is sad to think that so gentle a philanthropist, in the direct sense amicus humani generis, should be denied the green autumn of ease and the dignity which he had earned by his splendid service in Calcutta; and especially not to have been given the opportunity to have further elaborated his most im portant contributions to ophthalmol ogy. As with others of the Indian tri umvirate, he had an exceptional oppor tunity in operative ophthalmology dur ing service in India, having done over 14,000 cataract operations and thous ands upon thousands of others. Perhaps he was best known for his work on Glaucoma. In addition to this in 1908 he published a most excellent book on Operative Ophthalmology, with a second edition in 1920. He also wrote many papers in medical chan nels, contributing from time to time to the American Journal of Ophthal mology. He received the degree of M.B. Durh., with honors; D.P.H., Cambridge, and F.R.C.S., England. His record in the Indian Medical Service was as follows: 1887 to 1892: Military duty, includ ing Field Service Hazara (Black Mountain) 1891, medal and clasp. 1893 and 1894: Superintendent, Patna Opium Factory (2000 to 3000 work people in busy season). 1895 to 1901: Civil Surgeon of Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Patna and Darjeeling, (in charge of civil hospital and special eye wards).