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Orthoptie Pratique
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
The final section on clinical applications concludes with a striking demonstration of how, by using the complex conjugate of the hologram of a cataract, a cataractous lens under laboratory conditions may be made to transmit an image with excellent clarity. There are numerous obstacles to the immedi ate clinical application of this demonstration, but it points a direction and it has an esthetic beauty which is satisfying in itself. For anyone who wants an understanding of an important segment of ophthalmic op tics this book is required reading. Albert M. Potts
JANUARY, 1974
is the five-page preface by J. Lawton Smith. The three major sins in neuro-ophthalmology are an insufficient and inadequate history, failure to obtain x-ray films, and failure to review the visual fields. Lessel provides a major review of toxic and deficiency optic neuropathies; Burde, another on ischemic optic neuropathy; and Larry K. Page dis cusses developmental tumors about the optic chiasm. There then follows a stimulating abstract of discussions of the various papers that provides an interesting evening's study. Frank W. Newell vol. 2. Edited by Felix T. Rapaport, Hans Balner, and Samuel L. Kountz. New York, Grune & Stratton, 1973. Clothbound, 1016 pages, table of contents, index, 256 black and white figures. $32.75 The Fourth International Congress of the Transplantation Society was held September 24-29, 1972, in San Francisco, California. This is an impressive record of current studies in immunology with major sections devoted to perspectives in transplant biology and medicine, histocompatibility, the immune response, mammalian and bacterial crossreactions, immunosuppression, antibody and antigen mediated effects, and tissue and organ transplantation. Although devoted mainly to the problems of biologic trans plantation, the principles discussed are ap plicable to the immunology of many sys tems. Frank W. Newell TRANSPLANTATION TODAY,
By M. J. Besnard. Paris, Doin, Editeurs, 1973. Paperback, 192 pages, table of contents, index, 114 black and white figures. $12.24 This little volume is intended for orthoptic novices. It deals almost exclusively with in struments and techniques of examination. Treatment is barely mentioned, except for a chapter devoted to amblyopia therapy, a large part of which is taken up by the method of "penalization" of the fixation eye, which at present enjoys some vogue in France. Such obvious orthoptic subjects as conver gence insufficiency and accommodative esotropia, to list only two, are not even men tioned. ORTHOPTIE PRATIQUE.
The book is typographically pleasing and the illustrations are clear and well produced. According to Prof. Woillez who wrote the preface, no French manual for orthoptists has so far been available and this volume fills this void. Hermann M. Burian SYMPOSIA
Edited by J. Lawton Smith and S. Glaser. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby, 1973. Clothbound, 146 pages, table of contents, index, 109 black and white figures. $22.50 The date of this symposium is not pro vided, but this slim volume suggests that it was relatively recent. A most lively portion NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY.
CORRECTION
In the article, "Nome's disease (heredi tary oculoacoustic-cerebral degeneration). Report of a United States family," by Philip L. Townes and Primitivo D. Roca (Am. J. Ophthalmol. 76:797, 1973), the key in the legend for Figure 1 was printed incorrectly. It should read: Key: affected male ■ , proven female carrier © , obligate female carrier if mutant present in ante cedent generations © .
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
The final section on clinical applications concludes with a striking demonstration of how, by using the complex conjugate of the hologram of a cataract, a cataractous lens under laboratory conditions may be made to transmit an image with excellent clarity. There are numerous obstacles to the immedi ate clinical application of this demonstration, but it points a direction and it has an esthetic beauty which is satisfying in itself. For anyone who wants an understanding of an important segment of ophthalmic op tics this book is required reading. Albert M. Potts
JANUARY, 1974
is the five-page preface by J. Lawton Smith. The three major sins in neuro-ophthalmology are an insufficient and inadequate history, failure to obtain x-ray films, and failure to review the visual fields. Lessel provides a major review of toxic and deficiency optic neuropathies; Burde, another on ischemic optic neuropathy; and Larry K. Page dis cusses developmental tumors about the optic chiasm. There then follows a stimulating abstract of discussions of the various papers that provides an interesting evening's study. Frank W. Newell vol. 2. Edited by Felix T. Rapaport, Hans Balner, and Samuel L. Kountz. New York, Grune & Stratton, 1973. Clothbound, 1016 pages, table of contents, index, 256 black and white figures. $32.75 The Fourth International Congress of the Transplantation Society was held September 24-29, 1972, in San Francisco, California. This is an impressive record of current studies in immunology with major sections devoted to perspectives in transplant biology and medicine, histocompatibility, the immune response, mammalian and bacterial crossreactions, immunosuppression, antibody and antigen mediated effects, and tissue and organ transplantation. Although devoted mainly to the problems of biologic trans plantation, the principles discussed are ap plicable to the immunology of many sys tems. Frank W. Newell TRANSPLANTATION TODAY,
By M. J. Besnard. Paris, Doin, Editeurs, 1973. Paperback, 192 pages, table of contents, index, 114 black and white figures. $12.24 This little volume is intended for orthoptic novices. It deals almost exclusively with in struments and techniques of examination. Treatment is barely mentioned, except for a chapter devoted to amblyopia therapy, a large part of which is taken up by the method of "penalization" of the fixation eye, which at present enjoys some vogue in France. Such obvious orthoptic subjects as conver gence insufficiency and accommodative esotropia, to list only two, are not even men tioned. ORTHOPTIE PRATIQUE.
The book is typographically pleasing and the illustrations are clear and well produced. According to Prof. Woillez who wrote the preface, no French manual for orthoptists has so far been available and this volume fills this void. Hermann M. Burian SYMPOSIA
Edited by J. Lawton Smith and S. Glaser. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby, 1973. Clothbound, 146 pages, table of contents, index, 109 black and white figures. $22.50 The date of this symposium is not pro vided, but this slim volume suggests that it was relatively recent. A most lively portion NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY.
CORRECTION
In the article, "Nome's disease (heredi tary oculoacoustic-cerebral degeneration). Report of a United States family," by Philip L. Townes and Primitivo D. Roca (Am. J. Ophthalmol. 76:797, 1973), the key in the legend for Figure 1 was printed incorrectly. It should read: Key: affected male ■ , proven female carrier © , obligate female carrier if mutant present in ante cedent generations © .