A MODIFICATION of Gillies's plastic needle holder for ophthalmic use was described by the author 17 years ago (Foster, 1938). This consisted in a reduction in size of the handle and scissors-shank of Gillies's instrument, and the replacement of the curved jaws intended to hold needles for intradermal suturing by the jaws of a Quarry Silcock needle holder of average size. The instrument had all ...

The eyes of snakes are shielded beneath a layer of transparent integument referred to as the 'reptilian spectacle'. Well adapted to vision by virtue of its optical transparency, it nevertheless retains one characteristic of the integument that would otherwise prove detrimental to vision: its vascularity. Given the potential consequence of spectacle blood vessels on visual clarity, one might exp...

Reading is the most common goal among persons with age-related macular degeneration and other retinal diseases that lead to macular loss, as well as the functional task most affected by the resulting central scotomas. This project determined whether reading ability is different when persons with macular loss read with a new hybrid-diffractive spectacle magnifier versus a refractive-aspheric spe...