Recent Advances in Ophthalmology

Abstract

In the present edition the author follows the general outline of the previous work but omits the first four chapters of the second edition on the nature of light, physiologic optics, embryology and methods of diagnosis. He has divided his previous chapter on physiology into separate and more comprehensive ones on vascular circulation, intra-ocular fluids, intra-ocular pressure, the vitreous body and the effect of drugs on the eye, bringing these subjects down to date. The last mentioned chapter is an excellent review of the action of the drugs commonly used in study and therapy in ophthalmology. The second edition was chiefly concerned with glaucoma, cataract and neurology. In this edition the latter is omitted and the first two subjects are enlarged on. In the second part, on diseases of the eye, the author reviews intra-ocular infections, ocular pigment and intra-ocular tumors, disease of the conjunctiva, cornea and retina, and sympathetic