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Giza Memorial Ophthalmic Laboratory, second annual report, 1927
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which the pictures are to be viewed through the stereoscope, and also to learn whether both parts of the picture reach the child's consciousness equally well. The remaining forty-three pairs serve to determine whether a sense of depth is obtainable, and with two ex ceptions they are so designed that each half furnishes separately no sense of perspective, whereas with two halves an estimation of the relative distance of some object in the picture is called for. For example, in regard to a chair and the figure of a girl leaping through the air, the question asked is whether the girl is jumping over the chair or in front of or behind it. Sattler's series is admirably designed and executed, and is calculated to serve splendidly the purpose for which it is intended. The publisher and author should arrange for a thoroughly idio matic translation of the explanatory text into English, or for an English or American edition. W. H. C. Giza Memorial Ophthalmic Labora tory, second annual report, 1927. (Ministry of the Interior, Egypt, Department of Public Health.) Misr Printing Press, Cairo, 1928. This interesting institution was opened in September, 1925, as an ex tension of the work of the ophthalmic department of the Egyptian Ministry of Public Health. The Laboratory un dertakes systematic postgraduate edu cation of physicians in the Egyptian government service who are to devote themselves to ophthalmology in the government ophthalmic hospitals; and attention is also apparently given to the preparation of general medical stu dents at the University (? at Cairo) for the special ophthalmic problems of Egypt. Further, the Laboratory ex amines specimens from the various ophthalmic hospitals throughout Egypt and from a small number of private clinics. A number of pathologic speci mens of particular interest are de scribed in this annual report, with some excellent illustrations. A special study was made as to the value of painting the trachomatous
conjunctiva with chaulmoogra oil. Beneficial results were obtained from simple painting and especially from vigorous rubbing of the palpebral con junctiva with the oil. But the oil was not regarded as in any way a specific for trachoma. Ten per cent of the people of Egypt are blind in one or both eyes, and the predominating cause of this blindness is gonococcic ophthalmia. Especial study was made as to the advantage of combining intramuscular injections of antigonococcic serum with the ordi nary local silver treatment of this dis ease. The period of treatment was found to be shortened by the use of the serum, but the cost of the serum made it advisable to limit its employment to the more severe cases. Large doses (eight to ten c.c.) on successive days are recommended. W. H. C. United Fruit Company, Medical De partment, sixteenth annual report, 1927. Card covers, 368 pages, il lustrated. General offices of the company, Boston, Massachusetts. This volume is not, as one might ex pect, a mere drily statistical statement of work done in this great company's hospitals; but rather a collection of very valuable papers on various tropi cal diseases, together with a number of interesting case reports by medical officers of the company. Two papers included, by special in vitation, are by Sir Aldo Castellani and Dr. W. M. James, eminent research workers in the field of tropical diseases A special feature of the company's research work during the past year has dealt with the cure of human carriers of malaria, by means of a combinatior treatment with plasmochin and qui nine. Plasmochin is a new drug par ticularly effective in clearing the peri pheral blood of gametocytes, the aduh sexual forms of malarial parasites tha infect mosquitoes. This drug is saic to be the most important discovery foi malaria control since the value o quinine in the cure of malaria was firs recognized; and considerable space i:
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which the pictures are to be viewed through the stereoscope, and also to learn whether both parts of the picture reach the child's consciousness equally well. The remaining forty-three pairs serve to determine whether a sense of depth is obtainable, and with two ex ceptions they are so designed that each half furnishes separately no sense of perspective, whereas with two halves an estimation of the relative distance of some object in the picture is called for. For example, in regard to a chair and the figure of a girl leaping through the air, the question asked is whether the girl is jumping over the chair or in front of or behind it. Sattler's series is admirably designed and executed, and is calculated to serve splendidly the purpose for which it is intended. The publisher and author should arrange for a thoroughly idio matic translation of the explanatory text into English, or for an English or American edition. W. H. C. Giza Memorial Ophthalmic Labora tory, second annual report, 1927. (Ministry of the Interior, Egypt, Department of Public Health.) Misr Printing Press, Cairo, 1928. This interesting institution was opened in September, 1925, as an ex tension of the work of the ophthalmic department of the Egyptian Ministry of Public Health. The Laboratory un dertakes systematic postgraduate edu cation of physicians in the Egyptian government service who are to devote themselves to ophthalmology in the government ophthalmic hospitals; and attention is also apparently given to the preparation of general medical stu dents at the University (? at Cairo) for the special ophthalmic problems of Egypt. Further, the Laboratory ex amines specimens from the various ophthalmic hospitals throughout Egypt and from a small number of private clinics. A number of pathologic speci mens of particular interest are de scribed in this annual report, with some excellent illustrations. A special study was made as to the value of painting the trachomatous
conjunctiva with chaulmoogra oil. Beneficial results were obtained from simple painting and especially from vigorous rubbing of the palpebral con junctiva with the oil. But the oil was not regarded as in any way a specific for trachoma. Ten per cent of the people of Egypt are blind in one or both eyes, and the predominating cause of this blindness is gonococcic ophthalmia. Especial study was made as to the advantage of combining intramuscular injections of antigonococcic serum with the ordi nary local silver treatment of this dis ease. The period of treatment was found to be shortened by the use of the serum, but the cost of the serum made it advisable to limit its employment to the more severe cases. Large doses (eight to ten c.c.) on successive days are recommended. W. H. C. United Fruit Company, Medical De partment, sixteenth annual report, 1927. Card covers, 368 pages, il lustrated. General offices of the company, Boston, Massachusetts. This volume is not, as one might ex pect, a mere drily statistical statement of work done in this great company's hospitals; but rather a collection of very valuable papers on various tropi cal diseases, together with a number of interesting case reports by medical officers of the company. Two papers included, by special in vitation, are by Sir Aldo Castellani and Dr. W. M. James, eminent research workers in the field of tropical diseases A special feature of the company's research work during the past year has dealt with the cure of human carriers of malaria, by means of a combinatior treatment with plasmochin and qui nine. Plasmochin is a new drug par ticularly effective in clearing the peri pheral blood of gametocytes, the aduh sexual forms of malarial parasites tha infect mosquitoes. This drug is saic to be the most important discovery foi malaria control since the value o quinine in the cure of malaria was firs recognized; and considerable space i: