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questions of this kind will some day be referred to a special organization under the League of Nations. In some in­stances medical German uses words of native origin where the English lan­guage of anatomy employs words of classical derivation. Thus the word "pons", so universally found in our own medical writings, is commonly rendered in German as "Briicke" ("bridge"); and in such a case Americans whose ac­quaintance with German is somewhat sketchy are apt to be led into queer mis­takes, for their grasp of Latin and Greek as applied to technical terms is likely to be rather weak and unimagina­tive. On the other hand, German writ­ers sometimes seem fairly to gloat over the use of pure Latin (or scientific neo-Latin) for long descriptive titles of diseases. The amusing feature of this latter tendency is that it appears to be just as frequent now as before the war in spite of the belligerent enthusiasm displayed by some German writers for the ingenious construction of new, na­tive German, compound names for medical terms which had previously been expressed in forms adapted from Latin, Greek, or particularly French.

W. H. Crisp.

Cirurgia ocular (Ocular surgery), vol­ume one. (In Portuguese.) By Dr. W. Belfort Mattos. Paper covers, 109 pages, freely illustrated. Price not stated. Published for the author by Imprensa Methodista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1931.

In 1930 the National Academy of Medicine of Brazil awarded this work the prize in the first competition held on the basis of a fund established by Gabriel Andrade in honor of Moura, a distinguished Brazilian physician. The present volume is a well written and profusely illustrated series of descrip­tions of the technique used by the author in operations for senile and soft cataract, oorneal leucoma, serous cyst of the iris, ocular cysticercus, acute and chronic glaucoma, epibulbar tumors and ptery-gium, tumor of the optic nerve, tra­choma, entropion and trichiasis, and

spasmodic entropion, as well as a dis­cussion of palpebroconjunctival auto-plasty, surgery of the lacrimal passages, discission, and treatment of intraocular foreign bodies. W. H. Crisp.

Stereoskopischer Atlas der ausseren Erkrankungen des Auges (Stereo­scopic atlas of external eye dis­eases). By K. Wessely, Professor in Munich. 4th. Series. Published by J. F. Bergmann.

This is the fourth of the series of colored stereoscopic photographs of dis­eases of the external eye and is fully up to the standard set by the preceding series. The conditions shown are: pterygium, epithelial tumor of the lim-bus, lacrimal fistula following injury, xerophthalmos following trachoma, melano-sarooma of the choroid, tuber­culous iritis, zonular cataract, calcified luxated lens, metallic foreign body in anterior chamber, and vaccinia of the eyelids. The photographs are actual stereos in color, reproduced by a new process that permits of high color fidel­ity except in the higher magnifications where the grains of the photographic emulsion become too plainly visible. Needless to say, the reproductions of the clinical processes are absolutely ac­curate and the colors add much to the teaching values. On the back of each plate is a short description of the case in English, German, and French.

Harry Gradle.

Bulletin de la Societe Beige d'Ophtal-mologie, No. 62. Analytic report of the 26th reunion of the Society at Brussels April 26, 1931. Paper cov­ers, 76 pages.

This bulletin includes 15 papers and case reports read before the Society, to­gether with discussions.

Among them are "The persistent pain of zona ophthalmica", by J. Badot; "The nasal nerve syndrome", by Wibo; "Re­flections on a case of chronic glaucoma. Technique of Kait and retrobulbar dio-nin injections of Weekers", by Marbaix; "New applications of retrobulbar injec­tion", by Kleefeld; "On the pseudo sign