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Étiologie et Traitement des Blépharites
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BOOK NOTICES
But in English and American medi cal literature there can hardly be any valid excuse for continuing to speak of "Linksglaukosan." It would not be very much less logical to use such forms as "linksrotatory" and "Linksrotation". The first component of the term "Linksglaukosan" merely points to the fact that this derivative of the suprarenal capsule rotates polarized light to the left, or in other words is levorotatory. The normal English equivalent for the German word "Linksglaukosan" is "levoglaucosan". W. H. Crisp. BOOK NOTICES fitiologie et traitement des blepharites. By Professor E. Aubaret of Mar seille. A report presented to the Societe Franchise d'Ophtalmologie, May 14, 1929. Published by Masson et Cie at the book store of the Academie de Medecine, 120 Boulevard Saint-Ger main, Paris V P , 1929. (Price not given.) Octavo, 135 pages, un bound. This "report", upon a subject defi nitely assigned by the French ophthalmological society, attempts to es tablish an etiological classification of various types of blepharitis. The monograph opens with a statement of anatomy and embryology. An im portant position is given to eczema as affecting the eyelids. Under this general head are discussed the follow ing causes: he'redity, the influence of hygiene and of food intoxication, or ganic insufficiencies, mechanical, phy sical, and chemical irritants, bacteriol ogy, impetiginous blepharitis and other dermatoses, blepharitis especial ly involving the sebaceous meibomian and sweat glands, follicular blephari tis, sycotic blepharitis, acneiform ble pharitis, and foruncular blepharitis. A second chapter deals with the in fluence of various infectious and para sitic diseases upon blepharitis, a third chapter with the part played by other ocular disturbances and by errors of refraction; while the second part of
the monograph, consisting of forty-six pages divided into three chapters and a number of subdivisions, takes up the treatment of the various types of dis turbance.
W. H. Crisp.
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, 14th annual report. Office of the Society, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York City. This fourteenth annual report of the society formerly known as the Na tional Committee for the Prevention of Blindness is a fascinating account of the work of the society for the past year. It emphasizes especially the fol lowing features: the spirit of coopera tion between this society and a number of other national organizations; a study of international aspects of the preven tion of blindness, undertaken jointly with the League of Red Cross Socie ties, and a report of which will be published in 1929 in both the English and the French languages; an exten sive cooperative educational campaign with the American Federation of La bor to reach five million families of working men and women; the pro gress made toward the elimination of ophthalmia neonatorum, the frequency of which as a cause of blindness among the children entering schools for the blind is said to have dimin ished sixty-eight per cent in the last twenty years; the Society's educa tional activities in promoting tests of the vision of children in the preschool age; and the rapidly growing move ment for the establishment of sightsaving classes in the schools of the larger cities, 318 such classes being now in existence throughout the coun try, but the total need for these classes being estimated at approxi mately five thousand classes. (Abbreviated from the Society's summary of its annual report.) Farbige, insbesondere griine Glaser als Augenschutz, ein Riickblick und Ausblick (Tinted, especially green glasses for ocular protec tion, a retrospect and prospect).
BOOK NOTICES
But in English and American medi cal literature there can hardly be any valid excuse for continuing to speak of "Linksglaukosan." It would not be very much less logical to use such forms as "linksrotatory" and "Linksrotation". The first component of the term "Linksglaukosan" merely points to the fact that this derivative of the suprarenal capsule rotates polarized light to the left, or in other words is levorotatory. The normal English equivalent for the German word "Linksglaukosan" is "levoglaucosan". W. H. Crisp. BOOK NOTICES fitiologie et traitement des blepharites. By Professor E. Aubaret of Mar seille. A report presented to the Societe Franchise d'Ophtalmologie, May 14, 1929. Published by Masson et Cie at the book store of the Academie de Medecine, 120 Boulevard Saint-Ger main, Paris V P , 1929. (Price not given.) Octavo, 135 pages, un bound. This "report", upon a subject defi nitely assigned by the French ophthalmological society, attempts to es tablish an etiological classification of various types of blepharitis. The monograph opens with a statement of anatomy and embryology. An im portant position is given to eczema as affecting the eyelids. Under this general head are discussed the follow ing causes: he'redity, the influence of hygiene and of food intoxication, or ganic insufficiencies, mechanical, phy sical, and chemical irritants, bacteriol ogy, impetiginous blepharitis and other dermatoses, blepharitis especial ly involving the sebaceous meibomian and sweat glands, follicular blephari tis, sycotic blepharitis, acneiform ble pharitis, and foruncular blepharitis. A second chapter deals with the in fluence of various infectious and para sitic diseases upon blepharitis, a third chapter with the part played by other ocular disturbances and by errors of refraction; while the second part of
the monograph, consisting of forty-six pages divided into three chapters and a number of subdivisions, takes up the treatment of the various types of dis turbance.
W. H. Crisp.
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, 14th annual report. Office of the Society, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York City. This fourteenth annual report of the society formerly known as the Na tional Committee for the Prevention of Blindness is a fascinating account of the work of the society for the past year. It emphasizes especially the fol lowing features: the spirit of coopera tion between this society and a number of other national organizations; a study of international aspects of the preven tion of blindness, undertaken jointly with the League of Red Cross Socie ties, and a report of which will be published in 1929 in both the English and the French languages; an exten sive cooperative educational campaign with the American Federation of La bor to reach five million families of working men and women; the pro gress made toward the elimination of ophthalmia neonatorum, the frequency of which as a cause of blindness among the children entering schools for the blind is said to have dimin ished sixty-eight per cent in the last twenty years; the Society's educa tional activities in promoting tests of the vision of children in the preschool age; and the rapidly growing move ment for the establishment of sightsaving classes in the schools of the larger cities, 318 such classes being now in existence throughout the coun try, but the total need for these classes being estimated at approxi mately five thousand classes. (Abbreviated from the Society's summary of its annual report.) Farbige, insbesondere griine Glaser als Augenschutz, ein Riickblick und Ausblick (Tinted, especially green glasses for ocular protec tion, a retrospect and prospect).