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years been exerted by the activities of the ophthalmic and otolaryngologic examining boards, in combination with the action of national and local societies in requiring the certificates of these boards as conditions for membership.

IV. H. Crisp.

BOOK NOTICES Kurzes Handbuch der Ophthalmologie

(Short handbook of ophthal­mology), by forty-seven authors; edited by F. Schieck of Würzburg and A. Brückner of Basel. Third volume, "Orbit, accessory sinuses, eyelids, lacrimal apparatus, ocular muscles, eye and ear", by M. Bartels, A. Birch-Hir.schfeld, R. Cords, A. Linck, W. Löhlein, and W. Meisner. Large octavo, 745 pages, 454 illustrations (some colored). Price of this volume, paper covers 134 marks, bound 138.60 marks. Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 1930.

This volume is fully up to the stand­ard of the two volumes of the series previously published, and is thoroughly adapted to serve as a valuable work of reference on those divisions of ophthal­mology with which it deals. Its many beautiful illustrations include a num­ber of photographs of rather rare con­ditions. As before, the purpose of fur­nishing a practical work of reference which may be applied to the daily problems of the consultation room and clinic has been kept foremost, while matters of more purely scientific inter­est are dealt with briefly and with em­phasis upon essentials. Questions of differential diagnosis and treatment are especially emphasized. Microscopic sections are in many instances illus­trated by means of beautiful colored drawings.

Some of the principal chapters on diseases of the orbit may be mentioned, including anatomy, circulatory disturb­ances, hemorrhages, inflammatory dis­eases, parasites, various tumors, and injuries. Under the section on the nasal accessory sinuses, special sub­divisions include complications of

sinusitis, granulomata, tumors, and in­juries. The eyelids are considered as to deformities, various diseased condi­tions, the disturbances of muscular control, and tumors. In the section on the lacrimal apparatus, the newer oper­ations for establishing communication between the tear sac and the nose are dealt with rather briefly. Professor Richard Cords has furnished a very comprehensive discussion of the physi­ology of the ocular movements, fol­lowed by a consideration of various disturbances of the oculomotor appara­tus. Under "eye and ear". Professor J>artels writes very learnedly on nys­tagmus ; and he has added an api)en-dix dealing with the mutual relation­ship between hearing and visual sensa­tions, and with diseases of the eyeball or the optic nerve existing in associa­tion with diseases of the auditory ap-I)ar;itus. ¡V. H. Crisp.

Handbuch der gesamten Augenheil­kunde (Graefe-Saemisch Hand­buch) ; founded by Α. Graefe and Th. Saemisch, continued by C. Hess, issued by Th. Axenfeld and A. Elschnig. Third revised edition. Glaucoma, by A. Peters. Octavo, 361 pages, with 35 illustrations. Price, pai)er covers, 38 marks; bound, 39.80 marks. Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 1930.

The scope of Peters' work in this volume is somewhat limited by the fact that operative methods and a number of associated details are dealt with in detail in another volume of the hand­book (that by Köllner, Heine, and Wes­sely).

This work contains a number of pas­sages from the corresponding work of Schmidt-Rimpler on the same subject, published in 1908 as part of the second edition of the handbook; such passages furnishing an interesting comparison between the knowledge of the subject in 1908 and at the present time. "The German and non-German literature of the subject since 1908 has been brought together as carefully and completely as possible, supplementing the bibliogra-