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Systemic Ophthalmology
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man and the man with very great limitations within one body, meeting in sharp conflict for the first time. It is with the resolution of this conflict that one phase of blind rehabili tation is concerned. A study of this resolu tion and how more favorable conditions may be created for it is the essential integrating purpose of this survey." At the end of the study, Chapter XV, "Conclusion," ably sums up the findings of the study. It is too long to quote here, but I should like to reveal the "final note": "Final ly, it may be said that, despite many hazards of their day and time, the group of citizens studied have emerged not as a weak, disturb ing element in social structure, but as an in spiriting human phenomenon, who serve and enrich their country and their world" . . . The Veterans Administration and particu larly those who were responsible for the ex cellent and heart-warming report are to be congratulated. The subject is a most difficult one and the statistics must have been arduous to an extreme to gather and compile. The analysis of the data is most masterly and we all should be very proud of our Veterans Ad ministration. Derrick Vail. OPHTHALMIC FITTING AND ADJUSTING.
By
Frank Kozol, B.S., O.D. Philadelphia, Chilton Co., 1958. 155 pages, 214 figures, index. Price: $6.50. Fitting and adjusting procedures vary ac cording to the ever-changing mechanical structure and styling of frames and mount
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ings. This thoroughly up-to-date manual stresses painstaking accuracy; many times a slight movement of a pad or temple may make the difference between the patient's being able to wear a correction in comfort or not being able to tolerate it at all. Hence the ophthalmologist should check not only the accuracy of the lenses but the fit of the frame. Knowing the needs of the patient, he can then suggest what alterations may be re quired. A reading of this book will be most helpful in determining what can and should be done. James E. Lebensohn.
OPHTHALMOLOGY. By Arnold Sorsby. London, Butterworth & Co.; St. Louis, C. V. Mosby, 1958. Second edition. 664 pages, 277 illustrations, 24 color plates, selected bibliography, index. Price: $25.00. Prof. Sorsby, F.R.C.S., has found it neces sary to bring out a second edition of his pop ular book which first appeared in 1951, not only because of the demand for it but also because in these short seven years further important advances in ophthalmology in re lation to general medicine have occurred. Thus he has revised his text and has incor porated entirely new chapters. There are 34 contributors, some old, some new. While there are a few less illustrations than in the first edition, the loss is not felt. It has been a valuable book for study and reference and the new edition is an improvement. SYSTEMIC
Derrick Vail.
man and the man with very great limitations within one body, meeting in sharp conflict for the first time. It is with the resolution of this conflict that one phase of blind rehabili tation is concerned. A study of this resolu tion and how more favorable conditions may be created for it is the essential integrating purpose of this survey." At the end of the study, Chapter XV, "Conclusion," ably sums up the findings of the study. It is too long to quote here, but I should like to reveal the "final note": "Final ly, it may be said that, despite many hazards of their day and time, the group of citizens studied have emerged not as a weak, disturb ing element in social structure, but as an in spiriting human phenomenon, who serve and enrich their country and their world" . . . The Veterans Administration and particu larly those who were responsible for the ex cellent and heart-warming report are to be congratulated. The subject is a most difficult one and the statistics must have been arduous to an extreme to gather and compile. The analysis of the data is most masterly and we all should be very proud of our Veterans Ad ministration. Derrick Vail. OPHTHALMIC FITTING AND ADJUSTING.
By
Frank Kozol, B.S., O.D. Philadelphia, Chilton Co., 1958. 155 pages, 214 figures, index. Price: $6.50. Fitting and adjusting procedures vary ac cording to the ever-changing mechanical structure and styling of frames and mount
421
ings. This thoroughly up-to-date manual stresses painstaking accuracy; many times a slight movement of a pad or temple may make the difference between the patient's being able to wear a correction in comfort or not being able to tolerate it at all. Hence the ophthalmologist should check not only the accuracy of the lenses but the fit of the frame. Knowing the needs of the patient, he can then suggest what alterations may be re quired. A reading of this book will be most helpful in determining what can and should be done. James E. Lebensohn.
OPHTHALMOLOGY. By Arnold Sorsby. London, Butterworth & Co.; St. Louis, C. V. Mosby, 1958. Second edition. 664 pages, 277 illustrations, 24 color plates, selected bibliography, index. Price: $25.00. Prof. Sorsby, F.R.C.S., has found it neces sary to bring out a second edition of his pop ular book which first appeared in 1951, not only because of the demand for it but also because in these short seven years further important advances in ophthalmology in re lation to general medicine have occurred. Thus he has revised his text and has incor porated entirely new chapters. There are 34 contributors, some old, some new. While there are a few less illustrations than in the first edition, the loss is not felt. It has been a valuable book for study and reference and the new edition is an improvement. SYSTEMIC
Derrick Vail.