Albert M. Potts

Jaeger's Atlas of Diseases of the Ocular Fundus, With New Descriptions, Revisions and Additions

This reprinting of the plates from Jaegers 1869 atlas of the fundus oculi is a worthy contribution to the history of ophthalmology and a fine esthetic experience for the viewer. It was certainly a labor of love on the part of Dr. Albert, the editor who retrieved the original paintings from the archives of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The paintings reached that repository as a bequest from Dr. William F. Norris, the senior author of the Norris and Oliver ophthalmology text so familiar to a previous generation of American medical students. Dr. Norris, the first Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania, purchased the paintings from the estate of Jaeger after the death of the latter in 1884. The faithfulness of reproduction by Jaeger of normal and pathological detail is truly remarkable. Quite curious is his reproduction of the excavated glaucomatous disk as an elevation. Anyone

Manual of Common Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures

On the one hand, this book represents an act of piety on the part of Dr Kolder, who saw to completion the unfinished work of Dr Phelps. Charles Phelps, head of ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, died at 48 years of age of malignancy. On the other hand, the finished product should be useful to a large and diverse readership, few of whom are likely to be ophthalmic surgeons. The established surgeon will be too fond of his own way of doing things to be concerned with how it is done at Iowa. However, nearly everyone else will profit from reading this 189-page summary of some 33 procedures. The medical student, exposed to up-close ophthalmology for perhaps the only time in his life; the family physician; the internist; the operating room nurse; and, above all, the ophthalmic resident will all use the book and its clear line drawings with

Atlas of External Diseases of the Eye, vol 3: Cornea and Sclera

It is no longer news that one of the solutions to the problem of expensive color plate reproduction for medical atlases is the use of Viewmaster stereo reels. When the subject is external diseases of the eye where stereo views are highly appropriate and when the photographs are made under the supervision of Dr David Donaldson, the result must be highly successful. The text itself is not negligible, for it forms an excellent outline of external disease of cornea and sclera arranged under anatomical and etiological rubrics, bringing up the philosophical question of where an atlas ends and a textbook begins. The references at the end of each section are welcome. Least successful are the black-and-white photographs of eye disease reproduced by photooffset with a very short gray scale. Occasionally one must give the publisher a generous amount of faith that the reproductions really do depict the entity described in

The Retinal Circulation

The authors present us with an indepth treatment of the anatomy, pathology, and, within the limits imposed by present knowledge, the pathophysiology of the retinal blood supply. The book divides itself into two equal parts. The first deals with development, anatomy, physiology, and methods; the second, with diseases affecting the retinal circulation. The target role of the circulation in hypertensive and diabetic eye disease is known to all physicians. These subjects are dealt with in detail. Less common systemic diseases causing pathological findings in the eye are dealt with also. Among these are macroglobulinemia, polycythemia, leukemia, carotid insufficiency, giant cell arteritis, pulseless disease, and pseudoxanthoma elasticum. The largest category includes those vascular entities which are specifically ocular. They include closure of artery and vein, ocular inflammatory disease, disciform diseases of the posterior pole, and the relatively rare entities of Eales disease and Coats disease. All of these disease entities are

Ocular Histology: A Text and Atlas

As the authors state in their introduction, the object of their text is to bridge the gap between light microscopy and electron microscopy as applied to ocular structures. With this objective in mind the cytological approach employed is a logical one. After an introductory chapter on electron microscopy and four others on cytology and cellular relationships, each of the ocular substructures is treated in turn. The well-reproduced illustrations, on which the entire exposition depends, comprise gross specimens, external photographs, light micrographs and electron micrographs of superior quality. The authors, each of whom is an ophthalmic pathologist and a practicing ophthalmologist, fulfil well their stated objective. They have laid the groundwork for a future text on electron microscopic pathology of the eye, a subject to which each has already made contributions in the literature.

Klinik und Pathologie der Netzhautgefässe

Atlas of Fluorescence Fundus Angiography, by Shinichi Shikano and Koichi Shimizu, 201 pp, 247 illus,

The Causes of Blindness in Childhood: A Study of 776 Children With Severe Visual Handicaps

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System of Ophthalmology

30.25, Philadelphia and Toronto: W. B. Saunders Co., 1968. These two volumes make an interesting contrast. The Seitz book, an amplification of an earlier volume ( The Retinal Vessels: Comparative Ophthalmoscopic and Histologic Studies on Healthy and Diseased Eyes , 1964), deals with disease of the retinal vessels, in the classical way that has been so effective over the last hundred years. The correlation between ophthalmoscopic picture and histopathological section, the foundation of the classical approach, is given with good pictorial documentation. The chief failing of this method is that, although dynamic disease processes can be observed with the ophthalmoscope, the histopathological specimen represents only a single instant in time, and disease dynamics must be inferred by extrapolation. For this reason much attention is being given now to nondestructive physiological methods which allow us to

External Infections of the Eye; Bacterial, Viral, and Mycotic

This volume reports study done in England and Wales in the special schools for the blind. The study was performed on a sample of 724 blind children of a total population of 3,160. In addition, 52 children of a total of 2,202 partially sighted children were reviewed. For all categories except the preschool 0 to 5 age group, the sample averaged 25% of the total number of children and may be expected to be accurately representative of the group. Although we are not given a census figure on the total population under age 20 in England and Wales, the total number of blind children is evidently very small. Reasonably evident is the ephemeral nature of data such as these and the value of recording them. The value lies not in their immutability but their importance in documenting a stage in medical history. At this particular period, blindness due to infectious

The Ocular Adnexa

This new portion of the proposed 15-volume treatise deals in 313 text pages with the normal development of the eye; the second portion on congenital deformities is to appear shortly. The account presented here is adequate, well illustrated, and well documented. The subject of ocular embryology in the morphological sense dealt with here is not one being intensely investigated at present. Hence no large new body of information requires digestion and ordering, nor is there any great emphasis on onset of function. The book is a more extensive but conservative addition to a literature which already possesses Dr. Ida Manns impressive second edition.