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By Prof. Dr. Hans Oloff and Dr. Hans Podestà. Price, 7.50 marks. Pp. 198. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1937.

Arnold Knapp, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(3):475.

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This book includes a second, enlarged and completed edition of the "Diagnostik der Farbensinnstörungen" of Stargardt and Oloff, which appeared in 1912.

The examination for color vision is a problem not well understood by many oculists. Hence, an exhaustive description of this examination is given, occupying more than half the text, and other tests for vision are added. These consist of the examination of vision, of light sense and of ocular motility. The main reason for these tests is that they concern safety in traffic, and only those tests are described which have proved to be essential, easily applied and reliable.

The part of the text dealing with the examination of color vision follows a chapter on the examination of visual acuity and on the chief refractive anomalies. The importance of color vision in one's daily life and activity is dwelt on. The exact determination of the type of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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