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By Joseph Earle Moore, M.D. Second edition. Price, $7. Pp. 674. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1941.

Arnold Knapp, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(3):625.

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This edition has been rewritten and brought up to date with the aid of Dr. Jarold E. Kemp and the collaboration of Drs. Hary Eagle, Paul Padget and Mary S. Goodwin. Chapter III now deals with the infectiousness of syphilis and its relation to treatment. Two new chapters have been added, one on the intensive arsenotherapy of syphilis and one on the public health aspects of the treatment of syphilis.

As the first edition of this book was not reviewed in these ARCHIVES, it seems appropriate to draw attention to Section XX, on the treatment of ocular syphilis, which is of particular interest to ophthalmologists. It is conceded that the proper management of ocular syphilis demands the combined efforts of ophthalmologist and syphilologist. According to the author, the ophthalmologist's fear of arsenical drugs is ill founded, and his skepticism as to the results of treatment in interstitial keratitis and optic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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