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The Practice of Refraction
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combining rapid fixation with the exer To these the book may be of value. It is cise of memory in the form of simple hardly possible that it will impress anyone endowed with common sense and a criti games with dice or dominoes. But we are bound to disagree with cal faculty. It may be dangerous in the Huxley and his predecessors, and some hands of the impressionable who happen times to laugh at them, when, in treating to suffer from glaucoma or detachment of of astigmatism, they indulge in such the retina, and undoubtedly will be dan claims as that "spectacles tend to fix the gerous in the hands of the anxious parent cornea in that particular condition of dis of a myopic child. . . . But the greatest tortion present at the moment of the value of the book will be to the psychia oculist's examination. . . . But if the trist as an intimate and revealing selfastigmatic person will discard his arti study in psychology." ficial lenses, learn the art of passive and W. H. Crisp. dynamic relaxation, . . . he can do much to diminish, or even altogether eliminate BOOK NOTICES his disability." T H E PRACTICE OF REFRACTION. Duke-Elder well says (British Medical By Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. Fourth Journal, 1943, May 22, page 635) : edition, clothbound, 328 pages, 183 "Whatever be the value of the exercises, illustrations. Philadelphia, The Blakisit is quite unintelligent of Huxley to have ton Company, 1943. Price $4.50. confused their advocacy with so many This fourth edition of Duke-Elder's misstatements regarding known scientific facts. . . . The most stupid feature about valuable book on "The practice of refrac his book, however, is that he insists tion" is very little changed from the third throughout on the physiological mecha edition published in 1938. This textbook nism whereby these exercises are sup has been one of the most popular on the posed to work. It would at least have subject of refraction since its first publi been logical if he had continued to allow cation in 1928. The presentation is simple the reader to assume that he was speaking and sufficiently complete to satisfy any in ignorance of anything except results. but those who desire a deep or a profound . . . For the simple neurote who has mathematical discussion of the problems abundance of time to play with, Huxley's involved. For the use of the average stu antics of palming, shifting, flashing, and dent of refraction it leaves nothing to be the rest are probably as good treatment desired. as any other system of Yogi or Coué-ism. Lawrence T. Post.
BOOK NOTICES
combining rapid fixation with the exer To these the book may be of value. It is cise of memory in the form of simple hardly possible that it will impress anyone endowed with common sense and a criti games with dice or dominoes. But we are bound to disagree with cal faculty. It may be dangerous in the Huxley and his predecessors, and some hands of the impressionable who happen times to laugh at them, when, in treating to suffer from glaucoma or detachment of of astigmatism, they indulge in such the retina, and undoubtedly will be dan claims as that "spectacles tend to fix the gerous in the hands of the anxious parent cornea in that particular condition of dis of a myopic child. . . . But the greatest tortion present at the moment of the value of the book will be to the psychia oculist's examination. . . . But if the trist as an intimate and revealing selfastigmatic person will discard his arti study in psychology." ficial lenses, learn the art of passive and W. H. Crisp. dynamic relaxation, . . . he can do much to diminish, or even altogether eliminate BOOK NOTICES his disability." T H E PRACTICE OF REFRACTION. Duke-Elder well says (British Medical By Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. Fourth Journal, 1943, May 22, page 635) : edition, clothbound, 328 pages, 183 "Whatever be the value of the exercises, illustrations. Philadelphia, The Blakisit is quite unintelligent of Huxley to have ton Company, 1943. Price $4.50. confused their advocacy with so many This fourth edition of Duke-Elder's misstatements regarding known scientific facts. . . . The most stupid feature about valuable book on "The practice of refrac his book, however, is that he insists tion" is very little changed from the third throughout on the physiological mecha edition published in 1938. This textbook nism whereby these exercises are sup has been one of the most popular on the posed to work. It would at least have subject of refraction since its first publi been logical if he had continued to allow cation in 1928. The presentation is simple the reader to assume that he was speaking and sufficiently complete to satisfy any in ignorance of anything except results. but those who desire a deep or a profound . . . For the simple neurote who has mathematical discussion of the problems abundance of time to play with, Huxley's involved. For the use of the average stu antics of palming, shifting, flashing, and dent of refraction it leaves nothing to be the rest are probably as good treatment desired. as any other system of Yogi or Coué-ism. Lawrence T. Post.