Innovative ophthalmology

An innovative era of pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus

Ophthalmology

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

Ophthalmology.

Ophthalmology

?Myopia is an error of refraction, due to elongation of the-yeball, and its conditions vary with its degree. When it does n?t exceed four or five dioptres it is of little disadvantage, excePt to those who wish to enter the public services, or whose 0ccupations require particularly good far vision ; but as the amount increases, it causes more and more damage to the 'gnt, until in its high degree...

Ophthalmology

At a recent meeting of the Ophthalmological Society held in Edinburgh,2 Sydney Stephenson read a most instructive paper on the subject of the " spirochaeta pallida in relation to the syphilitic affections of the eye. He prefers to call the organism of Schaudinn by its newer name of treponema pallidum, which organism has now been found in all forms and stages of syphilis, whether acquired or inh...