world's history presents only during occasional long periods of widespread prosperity, to Mr. Lytton's eyes her personal influence does not account either for the great events that happened in her time or for the eminence of the chief characters which surrounded her. We see in his biography, what is lacking in the earlier book, a sincere attempt to refrain from belittling his subject, but certa...

Mouse goes everywhere, through rich men's houses she creeps, and she visits even the poorest. At night, with her bright little eyes she watches the doing of secret things and no treasure chamber is safe that she cannot enter and see what is hidden there. In the olden days she wove a story child from all she saw and to each of these she gave a gown of a different color-white, red, blue or black....

This paper argues that Suite: Indian, a 2005 film by Shelley Niro (Mohawk), critiques Euroamerican art that exploits non-specific “Indian” materials to represent allegedly “universal” themes. In particular, this essay will explore how Niro’s film critiques Edward MacDowell’s 1896 Second Suite, frequently called the Indian Suite, an orchestral piece that MacDowell claims is based upon Native mus...

A case history of a 15-year-old schoolgirl with fluctuating bilateral uveitis, bilateral stromal keratitis with vascularisation, and bilateral deafness associated with tinnitus and balance disturbance is described. Three years from the onset of her clinical signs she died of a sudden cardiac arrest caused by endocarditis associated with valvular and arterial lesions. Chlamydia psittaci was isol...

Case Report A 33-year-old woman had been generally well and had had no eye troubles until she suddenly became aware that she could not focus on print clearly when she picked up the newspaper one evening. During the next 3 weeks, before her admission to hospital, her vision became slightly more blurred, both for distance and near. She also was troubled by glare and for a few days after her initi...

A 71-YEAR-OLD WOMAN experienced vision loss for 2 weeks in her right eye along with jaw pain, headache, fevers, and malaise. Her visual acuity was 20/200 OD and 20/30 OS. She had a right afferent pupillary defect. Findings from her fundus examination were normal except for rare cotton-wool spots (Figure 1). Her blood pressure was normal. A fluorescein angiogram revealed delayed choroidal fillin...

Purpose. To report an unknown complication of laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery. Case Presentation. A 28-year-old female presented with photophobia and glare to our eye service. She stated in her medical history that she had undergone femtosecond assisted LASIK surgery in both eyes 15 months ago and her symptoms started just after this surgery. On admission, her best-corrected visual...

Leadership, as McDonald (1)argues, is a phenomenon which many people involved in healthcare around the globe put great emphasis on today; some even see the improvement of leadership as a panacea for all the ills of their healthcare system. This brief commentary on her work seeks to supplement the points she makes by emphasising the personalattractions leadership enjoys, at least in the eyes of ...

We report a case of bilateral Eales’ disease managed with intravitreal bevacizumab. A 32-year-old woman history bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine, administered when she was 10 years old, presented five-day scotoma in the temporal field her right eye. dilated fundus exam and fluorescein angiography showed retinal peripheral capillary non-perfusion, neovascularization eye, deep intraretinal hemorr...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of facial cleft is rare and ranges between 1.43 and 4.85 per 100,000 births. To date, there have been few reports of detailed ophthalmologic examinations performed in cases of facial cleft. Here, we report a case of optic-nerve hypoplasia and anterior segment abnormality associated with facial cleft. CASE REPORT A 9-day-old female infant was delivered by cesarian se...