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Dr. Moreu for the great amount of work and investigation his monograph repre sents. Manuel Uribe Troncoso.
REHABILITATION OF T H E WAR INJURED. A Symposium. Edited by William Brown Doherty, M.D., and Dagobert D. Runes, Ph.D. New York, The Philosophical Press. 1943. This volume is a compilation of se lected papers republished from the Ameri can Journal of Surgery, the New Eng land Journal of Medicine, the Archives of Ophthalmology, and many other medi cal journals. The articles all have to do with one general subject, the rehabilita tion of the war injured. The editors have gathered together pertinent papers on the following subjects : Neurology and Psy chology, Reconstruction and Plastic surg ery, Orthopedics, Physiotherapy, Occu pational therapy and Vocational guidance, The legal aspects of rehabilitation, and, under Miscellaneous, an article on the "Vascular and neurologic lesions of sur vivors of shipwreck." Throughout, the material is wellchosen, is well and logically arranged, and is the work of acknowledged leaders and authorities in the various fields re viewed. Of especial interest to ophthal mologists are the articles by Wendell Hughes on the "Rebuilding of a lower lid"; by W. B. Doherty on "Orbital im plants" ; by Pv. C. Davenport on the "Re habilitation in non-recoverable eye cases" and by Lady Duke-Elder on "Rehabilita tion in ophthalmic cases." The general problems of the rehabilita tion of the war injured is a pressing one and each day is increasing in magnitude. This volume is a timely and important contribution. Alan C. Woods.
TRANSACTIONS O F T H E AMERI CAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SO CIETY. Volume 40. Clothbound, 568 pages. Philadelphia, Wm. Fell, Co., Printers, 1942. The seventy-eighth annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society was held at Hot Springs, Virginia, June 1, 2, and 3, 1942. Twenty-two papers that were read at the meeting and nine theses are included in this volume of the transac tions. Papers on refractive problems were read by Crisp, Beach, Jackson, and Lan caster. The use of the cross cylinder, the astigmatic dial, and the application of aniseikonia were discussed. The use of ap plied psychology, tact, and an infinite amount of patience aid in solving the problems of refraction, White presented a method of recessing or tucking the inferior oblique muscle. This procedure has been used for more than five years with satisfaction in better than 100 cases. Kronfeld, McGarry, and Smith ob served 15 cases of so-called primary, wide-angled glaucoma. Mydriatics did not grossly influence the intraocular pressure. A new method of desensitizing tuber culous patients and animals by inhaling the fumes of a boiling saline suspension of dead tubercle bacilli was described by Brown, Irons, and Rosenthal. Woods and Burky reported their results in desensitizing immune-allergic rabbits which were inoculated in one eye with virulent human tubercle bacilli. Improve ment in the eyes occurred synchronously with evidence of clinical improvement. O'Brien and Allen's paper on allergic keratoconjunctivitis describes this syn drome, presents the diagnostic problem, and the therapy to be used. Vail and Ascher's research on corneal vascularization in which the material of the Birmingham Nutrition Clinic and the
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Cincinnati General Hospital was used. They concluded that there is no relation ship between the dietary customs and the frequency of the vascular congestion of the limbal region and the frequency of the establishment of concentric collateral ves sels. Thygeson and Braley reported the suc cessful use of 5-percent sulfathiazole ointment in acute and chronic conjunc tivitis of staphylococcic and diplobacillary origin. Reese studied a series of 17 cases of precancerous and cancerous melanosis of the conjunctiva. Five cases were success fully treated by irradiation with radon. The differential diagnosis of precancer ous melanosis, malignant melanoma, and congenital neurogenic nevus was pre sented. Adler, Scheie, and Moore have devel oped a method of completely iridectomizing eyes. Following this procedure in a series of cats the volume of the anterior chamber was reduced by 50 percent and the intraocular pressure was reduced by 35 percent. Atkinson reported an original observa tion of a brownish-colored reflex from the anterior capsule of the lens which occurs in chronic mercurialism. This col ored reflex was observed in one half of 70 patients observed. Terry presented a syndrome of fibroblastic overgrowth of persistent tunica vasculosa lentis in infants born prema turely. Wagener and Love studied the visualfield changes in 29 cases of Rathke's pouch tumors. The changes may be homonymous or of the bitemporal type. Cen tral scotomas are common. The following theses are included in this volume : Burton advocates fully correcting my opia or slightly overcorrecting in order to minimize the tendency of the myopic
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individual to squint. Courtney describes a new clinical en tity characterized by a late endophthalmitis in one eye due to sensitivity to lens protein. The removal of the lens of the inflamed eye is advised as a rational form of treatment. Drews presents further studies on autofundoscopy or autoophthalmoscopy. Edgerton reports five cases of herpes zoster ophthalmicus and reviews the literture. Fink reviews the literature on methylalcohol poisoning. The typical lesion is a practically complete dissolution of the rod-and-cone element, with some edema of the ganglion cell and nerve-fiber layer of the retina. Gibson has investigated the use of transscleral lacrimal-eanaliculus trans plants in the field of glaucoma surgery. Kilgore presents an experimental study of traumatic iridodialysis which was producel by sudden blows on the cornea; considerable intraocular pathology fol lowed this procedure. Moehle discusses the advantages of conjunctival flaps in cataract extractions. He prefers a conjunctival flap opened by a vertical slit and undermined to the limbus. A series of 80 cataract extractions are reported. Wheeler discusses the methods of ob jective strabismometry—a comparison of the Hirschberg and screen tests gave sat isfactory comparative results. The use of the Hirschberg test in small children is adequate. The material contained in this volume is exceptional in quality and quantity. Numerous original observations and methods are presented for the first time. The work of the society in encouraging clinical and experimental research is bringing increasing advances in medical science. William M. James.
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Dr. Moreu for the great amount of work and investigation his monograph repre sents. Manuel Uribe Troncoso.
REHABILITATION OF T H E WAR INJURED. A Symposium. Edited by William Brown Doherty, M.D., and Dagobert D. Runes, Ph.D. New York, The Philosophical Press. 1943. This volume is a compilation of se lected papers republished from the Ameri can Journal of Surgery, the New Eng land Journal of Medicine, the Archives of Ophthalmology, and many other medi cal journals. The articles all have to do with one general subject, the rehabilita tion of the war injured. The editors have gathered together pertinent papers on the following subjects : Neurology and Psy chology, Reconstruction and Plastic surg ery, Orthopedics, Physiotherapy, Occu pational therapy and Vocational guidance, The legal aspects of rehabilitation, and, under Miscellaneous, an article on the "Vascular and neurologic lesions of sur vivors of shipwreck." Throughout, the material is wellchosen, is well and logically arranged, and is the work of acknowledged leaders and authorities in the various fields re viewed. Of especial interest to ophthal mologists are the articles by Wendell Hughes on the "Rebuilding of a lower lid"; by W. B. Doherty on "Orbital im plants" ; by Pv. C. Davenport on the "Re habilitation in non-recoverable eye cases" and by Lady Duke-Elder on "Rehabilita tion in ophthalmic cases." The general problems of the rehabilita tion of the war injured is a pressing one and each day is increasing in magnitude. This volume is a timely and important contribution. Alan C. Woods.
TRANSACTIONS O F T H E AMERI CAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SO CIETY. Volume 40. Clothbound, 568 pages. Philadelphia, Wm. Fell, Co., Printers, 1942. The seventy-eighth annual meeting of the American Ophthalmological Society was held at Hot Springs, Virginia, June 1, 2, and 3, 1942. Twenty-two papers that were read at the meeting and nine theses are included in this volume of the transac tions. Papers on refractive problems were read by Crisp, Beach, Jackson, and Lan caster. The use of the cross cylinder, the astigmatic dial, and the application of aniseikonia were discussed. The use of ap plied psychology, tact, and an infinite amount of patience aid in solving the problems of refraction, White presented a method of recessing or tucking the inferior oblique muscle. This procedure has been used for more than five years with satisfaction in better than 100 cases. Kronfeld, McGarry, and Smith ob served 15 cases of so-called primary, wide-angled glaucoma. Mydriatics did not grossly influence the intraocular pressure. A new method of desensitizing tuber culous patients and animals by inhaling the fumes of a boiling saline suspension of dead tubercle bacilli was described by Brown, Irons, and Rosenthal. Woods and Burky reported their results in desensitizing immune-allergic rabbits which were inoculated in one eye with virulent human tubercle bacilli. Improve ment in the eyes occurred synchronously with evidence of clinical improvement. O'Brien and Allen's paper on allergic keratoconjunctivitis describes this syn drome, presents the diagnostic problem, and the therapy to be used. Vail and Ascher's research on corneal vascularization in which the material of the Birmingham Nutrition Clinic and the
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Cincinnati General Hospital was used. They concluded that there is no relation ship between the dietary customs and the frequency of the vascular congestion of the limbal region and the frequency of the establishment of concentric collateral ves sels. Thygeson and Braley reported the suc cessful use of 5-percent sulfathiazole ointment in acute and chronic conjunc tivitis of staphylococcic and diplobacillary origin. Reese studied a series of 17 cases of precancerous and cancerous melanosis of the conjunctiva. Five cases were success fully treated by irradiation with radon. The differential diagnosis of precancer ous melanosis, malignant melanoma, and congenital neurogenic nevus was pre sented. Adler, Scheie, and Moore have devel oped a method of completely iridectomizing eyes. Following this procedure in a series of cats the volume of the anterior chamber was reduced by 50 percent and the intraocular pressure was reduced by 35 percent. Atkinson reported an original observa tion of a brownish-colored reflex from the anterior capsule of the lens which occurs in chronic mercurialism. This col ored reflex was observed in one half of 70 patients observed. Terry presented a syndrome of fibroblastic overgrowth of persistent tunica vasculosa lentis in infants born prema turely. Wagener and Love studied the visualfield changes in 29 cases of Rathke's pouch tumors. The changes may be homonymous or of the bitemporal type. Cen tral scotomas are common. The following theses are included in this volume : Burton advocates fully correcting my opia or slightly overcorrecting in order to minimize the tendency of the myopic
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individual to squint. Courtney describes a new clinical en tity characterized by a late endophthalmitis in one eye due to sensitivity to lens protein. The removal of the lens of the inflamed eye is advised as a rational form of treatment. Drews presents further studies on autofundoscopy or autoophthalmoscopy. Edgerton reports five cases of herpes zoster ophthalmicus and reviews the literture. Fink reviews the literature on methylalcohol poisoning. The typical lesion is a practically complete dissolution of the rod-and-cone element, with some edema of the ganglion cell and nerve-fiber layer of the retina. Gibson has investigated the use of transscleral lacrimal-eanaliculus trans plants in the field of glaucoma surgery. Kilgore presents an experimental study of traumatic iridodialysis which was producel by sudden blows on the cornea; considerable intraocular pathology fol lowed this procedure. Moehle discusses the advantages of conjunctival flaps in cataract extractions. He prefers a conjunctival flap opened by a vertical slit and undermined to the limbus. A series of 80 cataract extractions are reported. Wheeler discusses the methods of ob jective strabismometry—a comparison of the Hirschberg and screen tests gave sat isfactory comparative results. The use of the Hirschberg test in small children is adequate. The material contained in this volume is exceptional in quality and quantity. Numerous original observations and methods are presented for the first time. The work of the society in encouraging clinical and experimental research is bringing increasing advances in medical science. William M. James.