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Uveitis and Efficient Office Management
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BOOK REVIEWS
By Sydney Pataky-Kuhâr of Budapest concerns sym S. Gellis, M.D., and Benjamin M. Kagan, pathetic ophthalmia. The next section by F. M.D. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Com Hollwich of the University Eye Clinic of pany, 1964. 747 pages. Price: $16.00. Jena is composed of a most comprehensive This is a book of primary interest to discussion of the diseases of the retina and medical students, pediatricians and general papilla. P. A. Jaensch completes the volume practitioners. It boasts a long list of distin with a text on inflammations and trauma due guished contributors. The section on the eye, to physical agents and chemical poisons. written by Dr. Leonard Apt, consists of 16 This volume reflects considerable credit pages in which the author manages to pre on the distinguished editor and the authors, sent an excellent discussion of eye prepara printer and publisher. It removes one small tions, conjunctivitis and eyelid infections, symbolic brick from the atrocious wall. keratitis, uveitis and eye trauma, stressing Derrick Vail. those conditions which a pediatrician might be called upon to handle. Thomas H. F. Chalkley. CURRENT PEDIATRIC THERAPY.
UVEITIS AND EFFICIENT OFFICE MANAGE
DER AUGENARZT: VOLUME V. Edited by
MENT. By Dan M. Gordon, M.D., and
Prof. Karl Velhagen (East Berlin). Leip zig, Georg Thieme, 1963. 946 pages, 627 illustrations of which 376 are in color, author index, subject index, chapter refer ences. Price: 275 East German marks. Volume V in this excellent encyclopedia now appears. Two more volumes are to fol low. The series are printed in East Germany, and a very good job of it, too. The German text is not easy for an Aus länder to follow, but the illustrations are numerous and good, quite up to the excel lent standard of this volume's predecessors. Kurt Emmrich, chief of the Eye Clinic of Karl Marx Stadt, opens up with a discussion of geometric optics, physiologic optics and ocular lenses (principles of refraction). Prof. Hans Remky of Munich University describes the elements for neuro-ophthalmologic diagnosis. Ruth Borner of the Eye Clinic of Friedrichshain zu Berlin writes on diseases of the uvea. The section by G.
Davis Durham, M.D. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1963. 225 pages. Price: $5.63. Here, at last, is a book which seems to bring a little order into the confusion sur rounding iritis. Perhaps the reason for this is that Drs. Gordon and Durham do not be come too dogmatic in their presentation. If for no other reason, this book should be acquired for its steroid section, which is very detailed. I have the feeling, however, that the authors still have much more to say on this subject than the present space permits. The section on office management is a bonus. It is worth-while reading, both for the young ophthalmologist and the old timer. There are numerous tips on how to organize effectively time, space, records, equipment and office personnel. This is a neglected sci ence and it is refreshing to see it presented outside the covers of a throw-away journal. Thomas H. F. Chalkley.
BOOK REVIEWS
By Sydney Pataky-Kuhâr of Budapest concerns sym S. Gellis, M.D., and Benjamin M. Kagan, pathetic ophthalmia. The next section by F. M.D. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Com Hollwich of the University Eye Clinic of pany, 1964. 747 pages. Price: $16.00. Jena is composed of a most comprehensive This is a book of primary interest to discussion of the diseases of the retina and medical students, pediatricians and general papilla. P. A. Jaensch completes the volume practitioners. It boasts a long list of distin with a text on inflammations and trauma due guished contributors. The section on the eye, to physical agents and chemical poisons. written by Dr. Leonard Apt, consists of 16 This volume reflects considerable credit pages in which the author manages to pre on the distinguished editor and the authors, sent an excellent discussion of eye prepara printer and publisher. It removes one small tions, conjunctivitis and eyelid infections, symbolic brick from the atrocious wall. keratitis, uveitis and eye trauma, stressing Derrick Vail. those conditions which a pediatrician might be called upon to handle. Thomas H. F. Chalkley. CURRENT PEDIATRIC THERAPY.
UVEITIS AND EFFICIENT OFFICE MANAGE
DER AUGENARZT: VOLUME V. Edited by
MENT. By Dan M. Gordon, M.D., and
Prof. Karl Velhagen (East Berlin). Leip zig, Georg Thieme, 1963. 946 pages, 627 illustrations of which 376 are in color, author index, subject index, chapter refer ences. Price: 275 East German marks. Volume V in this excellent encyclopedia now appears. Two more volumes are to fol low. The series are printed in East Germany, and a very good job of it, too. The German text is not easy for an Aus länder to follow, but the illustrations are numerous and good, quite up to the excel lent standard of this volume's predecessors. Kurt Emmrich, chief of the Eye Clinic of Karl Marx Stadt, opens up with a discussion of geometric optics, physiologic optics and ocular lenses (principles of refraction). Prof. Hans Remky of Munich University describes the elements for neuro-ophthalmologic diagnosis. Ruth Borner of the Eye Clinic of Friedrichshain zu Berlin writes on diseases of the uvea. The section by G.
Davis Durham, M.D. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1963. 225 pages. Price: $5.63. Here, at last, is a book which seems to bring a little order into the confusion sur rounding iritis. Perhaps the reason for this is that Drs. Gordon and Durham do not be come too dogmatic in their presentation. If for no other reason, this book should be acquired for its steroid section, which is very detailed. I have the feeling, however, that the authors still have much more to say on this subject than the present space permits. The section on office management is a bonus. It is worth-while reading, both for the young ophthalmologist and the old timer. There are numerous tips on how to organize effectively time, space, records, equipment and office personnel. This is a neglected sci ence and it is refreshing to see it presented outside the covers of a throw-away journal. Thomas H. F. Chalkley.