Abstract
Bailliart has produced a monograph on the retinal circulation that embraces all our knowledge of the subject to date. In the course of a few years, it may have to be rewritten because of the added information gained by the use of red-free light for ophthalmoscopy and by the microscopy of the fundus with the Koeppe contact-glass and the Gullstrand slit lamp. Neither of these methods is more than mentioned, and it is evident that the author has not availed himself of their valuable aid. The first section of the book is devoted to the anatomy and physiology of the retinal circulation, with great stress laid on the study of local vascular pressure by the Bailliart technic. This is well written, although not as logically consecutive as might be desired. It is believed that the pressure within the retinal arteries varies from 30 to 35 for the minimum to from
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