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Les conjonctivites folliculaires
BOOK NOTICES productions in the text and on a color plate. Price 8.80 marks. Ver lag von S. Karger, Berlin, 1933. This work, from the First University Eye Clinic of Vienna, is an outgrowth of Meller's studies on the relationship between tuberculosis and sympathetic ophthalmia (see editorial, American Journal of Ophthalmology, 1933, vol ume 16, page 247). The author aims chiefly to present precise knowledge as to the clinical course and histology of tuberculosis in the rabbit eye, more particularly in the presence of penetrat ing injury. Extremely varied lesions were obtained in any part of the uveal tract. Beside characteristic nodules with giant cells and necrosis, numerous sharply or vaguely limited infiltrates were encountered consisting of epithelioid cells and lymphocytes of varying proportions, from infiltrates consisting entirely of epithelioid cells to mere col lections of lymphocytes. Thus purely lymphocytic foci may be of specifically tuberculous character. In many of these rabbit eyes the demonstration of tubercle bacilli by staining in sections was difficult, and occasionally a series of sections had to be stained in order to find any bacilli. The author insists that absence histologically of infiltrates typical for tuber culosis is no proof that the eye does not contain tubercle bacilli, and that on the other hand the absence of bacilli upon staining does not prove that the infil trated tissue has nothing to do with tuberculosis. In these experiments the occurrence of posttraumatic iridocyclitis was con nected with tuberculous infection of the damaged area. But the author's com ments as to the bearing of his experi ments upon the possible relationship between sympathetic ophthalmia and endogenous tuberculosis are incon clusive. W . H . Crisp. Les conjonctivites folliculaires (The follicular conjunctivitides). By V. Morax. Report presented to the 46th Congress of the Société Fran çaise d'Ophtalmologie, June 27, 1933. Paper covers, 142 pages, 5
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color plates outside the text (black and white illustrations in the text). Price not stated. Masson et Cie, Publishers for the Académie de Médecine, Paris, 1933. The author, working in the tubercu losis laboratories of the Pasteur Insti tute of Paris, studied especially the re lationship between trachoma, ordinary follicular conjunctivitis, and swimming pool conjunctivitis. His principal chap ters are as follows : on the history of the subject ; a series of clinical observations of swimming pool conjunctivitis with or without inclusion bodies and some of which were actually derived from swimming pool contagion while others arose in other places ; etiology ; descrip tion of a series of experiments in human inoculation from the swimming pool type of follicular conjunctivitis, as well as from the inclusion conjunctivitis of adults and of the newborn; pathologic anatomy ; and diagnosis. Swimming pool conjunctivitis differs essentially from trachoma by its rela tively rapid evolution (in one to four months) and by the fact that it heals without corneal or palpebrai sequels or complications. It is transmissible from man to man and is inoculable in certain monkeys, producing in these animals symptoms very analogous to those of the human subject after an incubation of from four to seven days. This same infection may be observed in the newborn child, giving rise to a nongonococcic ophthalmia of the new born which in a certain number of cases presents epithelial inclusions. Under the special designation of chronic follicular conjunctivitis the author groups cases in which the evolu tion of the disease is slower than that of trachoma and longer than that of swim ming pool conjunctivitis. W. H . Crisp. Collected reprints from the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, v. I I I . January 1932 to June 1933. This third volume is a suitable com panion for the previous two volumes,
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color plates outside the text (black and white illustrations in the text). Price not stated. Masson et Cie, Publishers for the Académie de Médecine, Paris, 1933. The author, working in the tubercu losis laboratories of the Pasteur Insti tute of Paris, studied especially the re lationship between trachoma, ordinary follicular conjunctivitis, and swimming pool conjunctivitis. His principal chap ters are as follows : on the history of the subject ; a series of clinical observations of swimming pool conjunctivitis with or without inclusion bodies and some of which were actually derived from swimming pool contagion while others arose in other places ; etiology ; descrip tion of a series of experiments in human inoculation from the swimming pool type of follicular conjunctivitis, as well as from the inclusion conjunctivitis of adults and of the newborn; pathologic anatomy ; and diagnosis. Swimming pool conjunctivitis differs essentially from trachoma by its rela tively rapid evolution (in one to four months) and by the fact that it heals without corneal or palpebrai sequels or complications. It is transmissible from man to man and is inoculable in certain monkeys, producing in these animals symptoms very analogous to those of the human subject after an incubation of from four to seven days. This same infection may be observed in the newborn child, giving rise to a nongonococcic ophthalmia of the new born which in a certain number of cases presents epithelial inclusions. Under the special designation of chronic follicular conjunctivitis the author groups cases in which the evolu tion of the disease is slower than that of trachoma and longer than that of swim ming pool conjunctivitis. W. H . Crisp. Collected reprints from the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, v. I I I . January 1932 to June 1933. This third volume is a suitable com panion for the previous two volumes,