cytoplasmic inclusions in the CNS of patients with multiple system atrophy (striatonigral degeneration, olivopontocerebellar atrophy and Shy-Drager syndrome). Metal-catalyzed oxidation renders silver intensifica-tion selective. Application for the histochemistry of diaminobenzidine and neurofibrillary changes. 6 Horoupian DS, Dickson DW. Striatonigral degeneration, olivopontocere-bellar atrophy...

LEONARD F. PELTIER, MD, Orthopedics: a history and iconography, Norman Orthopedic Series No. 3, Norman Surgery Series No. 6, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1993, pp. xxvi, 305, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-47-1). This companion volume to Fractures: a historv and iconography oftreatment, by the same author and publisher, is equally well researched and produced. In addition to 332 illustrations o...

AT the first meeting of the Society that was held in Coventry, in June, 1926, I read a paper on Iridencleisis and showed some cases upon whom the operation had been performed. At that time I had performed 15 operations only, and the paper was of a preliminary character. It was published in the Trans. Ofhthal. Soc. U.K., Vol. XLVI, page 353, 1926. When the paper came to me for proof correction I...

IN dedicating this article to Professor Karl Lindner in honour of his 70th birthday, the author acknowledges a debt which he among many ophthalmic surgeons-and their patients-owes to this pioneer of the surgery of retinal detachment; a debt which, unlike other debts, must rejoice the creditor in the knowledge that it will ever grow and ever remain unpaid. Particular reference is made to Lindner...

LEONARD F. PELTIER, MD, Orthopedics: a history and iconography, Norman Orthopedic Series No. 3, Norman Surgery Series No. 6, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1993, pp. xxvi, 305, illus., $225.00 (0-930405-47-1). This companion volume to Fractures: a historv and iconography oftreatment, by the same author and publisher, is equally well researched and produced. In addition to 332 illustrations o...

THE aim of this communication is to summarize briefly the present trends in corneal surgery, noting some of my own ideas and preferences, rather than to bring to your notice any particular item' or procedure with which you are not already familiar. For instance, you all know, but it is worth reiterating that, for a foreign body embedded deep in the stroma of the cornea, a keratome should be int...

The story begins long before the dawn of recorded history, at the time when man learned to use sticks and stones as weapons. We shall trace the injuries caused by weapons, which became increasingly more deadly from the Stone Age, through the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece to modern times. What do we mean by a penetrating wound of the head? There are three kinds of head injury. First,...