This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Raul Arganaraz. Third edition. Pp. 817, with 695 illustrations, many in colors. Buenos Aires, Argentina, El Ateneo, 1942.

Manuel Uribe Troncoso, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1943;29(1):169-170.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The first edition of this well known textbook of ophthalmology by Dr. Arganaraz, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, was published in 1929, and since then the book has found a field of usefulness in some of the Spanish-speaking countries. The author has had more than thirty years of professional experience in teaching and clinical work in the university hospital. In his preface to this edition he asserts that as ophthalmology has had such an enormous increase, both from the clinical and from the surgical standpoint, it becomes more and more difficult for the student to obtain the basic knowledge which its progress requires. Even new and autonomous specialties, such as ocular neurology, biomicroscopy, refraction and pathologic anatomy, have grown inside the specialty. Professor Arganaraz' book is written from the practical standpoint and contains only the basic subjects that every one must learn as a foundation for obtaining later . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?