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By Sir W. Stewart Duke-Elder. Volume 3. Diseases of the Inner Eye. Price, $18.50. Pp. 1,373, with 1,400 illustrations, including 164 in color. St. Louis : The C. V. Mosby Co., 1941.

Arnold Knapp, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1941;25(3):524-525.

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The much awaited third volume of Duke-Elder's textbook has just appeared, notwithstanding the tragic experiences which the English are passing through at this time. In this volume the diseases of the inner eye are taken up, and the subject matter is considered under the following headings : uveal tract, 436 pages ; retina, 383 pages ; optic nerve, 175 pages ; lens, 142 pages ; vitreous body, 34 pages; anomalies of intraocular pressure, 150 pages, and intraocular parasites, 21 pages. As in the preceding volumes, each section is introduced by a portrait and a short biographic sketch of a famous person in ophthalmology associated with progress in the subject under consideration.

Each subject is illustrated by microscopic slides of the histologic picture when available, by macroscopic drawings of the lesion and by the ophthalmoscopic picture in black and white or in colors, and at the end of each chapter there is a list of bibliographic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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