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It may be questioned whether these difficulties are fully over- 

 come in this book. The author of the chapter on Molds, for 

 instance, must condense his matter into fifteen pages with the 

 result that the brief summary of so large a field must be difficult 

 of comprehension for a beginner. Other topics, as the discus- 

 sion of certain special industries offer less difficulties to the 

 author in making the subject comprehensible to elementary 

 students. The success or failure of a text of this sort must 

 depend more on the teacher than in the case of a book written 

 by one author, the more so since laboratory features in this work 

 have been largely eliminated. 



M. A. B. 



Ophthalmic Surgery. A treatise on surgical operations pertaining to the eye 

 and its appendages, with chapters on para-operative technic and man- 

 agement of instruments. By Charles H. Beard, M, D. * * * With 

 9 plates, showing 100 instruments, and 300 other illustrations. Cloth. 

 Pp. 674. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1012 Walnut Street. 

 1910. 



Ophthalmic Surgery by Charles H. Beard is a treatise on 

 surgical operations pertaining to the eye and its appendages, 

 with chapters on para-operative technic and management of 

 instruments. The author is well known and looks back to an 

 experience at the operating table of more than twenty-five years. 

 The book serves as an excellent guide for the young specialist 

 starting on his career and gives food for reflection to the one 

 who has critical knowledge to compare his own ideas and 

 approved methods with those of the author. 



The first chapter deals with the preparation of surgeon, assist- 

 ant, patient, instruments, dressings, sterilization, and anaesthesia. 

 The second chapter gives a critical review of the ordinary 

 instruments used in ophthalmic surgery. The commendable 

 and objectionable features are enlarged upon with reasons and 

 explanations ; last, but not least, how to take care of the delicate 

 instruments is carefully gone into. 



Operations upon the lacrimal apparatus, both secretory and 

 drainage, technic of the leading measures for correction of ten- 

 dons and cheek ligaments, ectropion, entropion, ptosis, blepharo- 

 plasty, pterygium, and the surgical treatment of trachoma are 

 the main subjects dealt with in Chapters III to IX. 



Chapter X and XI relate to operations upon the globe. Foreign 

 bodies in the cornea, corneal cautery, paracentesis, keratic 

 plasty, staphyloma, and tattooage. The scleral surgery includes 

 sclerotomy, exenteration, enucleation, and the substitution of 



