Oxford Ophthalmological Congress 1979

The Treatment of the Earlier Stages of Senile Cataract *Read at the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, July 1914.

once a year for vision ; when their vision falls below ??? they are no longer fit for duty; such patients remain under my observation of necessity. The first symptom the patient complains of, especially railway officials and sportsmen, is that their distant vision is failing, no complaint being made of their near vision. A man's vision will be reduced to T%or even before he complains severely o...

Depression in ophthalmological patients.

INTRODUCTION Vision is the most important sensorial part of the human information system. Visual loss leads to reduced ability to perform routine activities of daily living and can be a risk for stable mental health. AIM The aim of this cross-sectional study is to assess the incidence of depression in patients treated in an ophthalmological outpatient clinic. To our knowledge this is the firs...

Ophthalmological Complications of Favism.

To the Editorial Committee of the BRMSH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY SIRs,-I read with interest the article of Choremis, Joannides, and Kyriakides on " Severe Ophthalmological Complications following Favism" (Brit. J. Ophthal. (1960) 44, 353). Since the authors state that "such complications were encountered for the first time and no information was found in the literature", I should like to refer ...

Some neuro-ophthalmological observations.

Sn 1979

VLBI observations at 5 GHz have revealed that supernova 1979C, in the galaxy M100 in the Virgo cluster, has shell structure. The shell is approximately circular with the 50% contour deviating from a circle by an rms of no more than 8% of the radius. The brightness distribution along the ridge may vary. The position of the center of the shell is at R.A.=12 h 22 m 58. s 66758 and decl.=15 • 47 ′ ...