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By H. M. Traquair, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh). Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Price, $6.50. Pp. 350, with 245 illustrations and 3 colored plates. London : Henry Kimpton, 1942.

Walter F. Duggan, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1944;31(2):181.

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The third edition of "Traquair" was reviewed in the December 1938 issue of the ARCHIVES, page 1116. The present edition, which has 12 more pages of text and 18 more illustrations than its predecessor, is still the only monograph in English which deals adequately with the interpretation and evaluation of pathologic alterations of the visual fields as obtained by perimetry, and particularly by tangent screen scotometry.

In the first part of this volume 51 pages are devoted to the normal field of vision, perimetric and scotometric instruments and methods of examination. In the second part of the volume, after a comprehensive discussion of the pathologic field and an interpretation of the changes encountered, the author portrays, discusses and interprets the fields associated with glaucoma and lesions of the choroid, retina, optic nerve and chiasm in 152 pages. This portion of the volume should be of interest to all ophthalmologists. Twenty-nine . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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