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PETER WALDEMAR SALIT, Ph.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1930;4(3):374-394.

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A large volume of work has been done during the last four or five years in biochemical studies of the three refractive media of the eye : the aqueous, the lens and the vitreous. One wonders why such studies were not made earlier, and what are the chief factors responsible for the sudden interest in these investigations. According to the older view among ophthalmologists, there is no direct communication between the ocular humors and the blood stream. The aqueous, which is supposed to be in part the medium through which the lens and the vitreous obtain nourishment, was regarded as a secretory product of the ciliary body. As blood is the chief agent of transfer in the body, many physiologic phenomena are interpreted in terms of blood chemistry. But, since no direct relationship was apparent at that time between the blood and the ocular humors, no information could be expected from . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
IOWA CITY

From the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Iowa.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 29, 1930.

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