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chorioretinitis and periphlebitis in hereditary syphilis ; of uveitis in leptospirosis ; and of a choroidal angioma complicated by intractable glaucoma which followed an injection of tetanus antitoxin.
A symposium on the essential shrinkage of the conjunctiva was the highlight of the session on March 16, 1947. Beauvieux delivered the lecture which dealt with the clinical description, pathology, etiology, differential diagnosis, and treatment of this comparatively rare disease.
The topics of the following 17 papers were many and their presentation and subjects of varying interest. A. Bronner and P. Pouliquen gave another lecture on penicillin therapy with especial emphasis on the technique of subconjunctival, anterior chamber, and vitreous injections in otherwise hopeless external eye infections.
Mathieu describes an original modification of intracapsular cataract extraction of an intumescent lens wherein a micropunc-ture to decrease the tautness of the capsule precedes the extraction. R. Bruckner combines a case report on toxoplasmosis with a detailed study of this disease. The origin and the manifestation of uveal carcinoma were discussed by J. Nordmann and G. Hoerner, and sarcoma of the choroid by J. C. Poirot.
A detailed case report of a nevocarcinoma of the lacrimal sac was given by Gallois and Michel-Gallois. Two cases of perforating scleromalacia were described by C. Henry and B. Algan. Beau, Thomas, and Bénichaux
report a case of bilateral pulsating exoph-thalmus and explain the pathology and the treatment, which consisted in the ligature of the right common carotid. The pathogene-sis of the ocular structures in methyl-alcohol intoxication was the topic of Rohr's paper.
The closing paper was read by Christian Henry. He reported on his research concerning the diastolic hypotension of the central retinal artery in fatal coma. He stresses the importance of the diastolic retinal pressure on the outcome of every kind of coma. A comparatively high diastolic pressure is of favorable prognosis as it is the sign of a cellular edema which is reversible. A decreasing diastolic pressure indicates cerebral degeneration which continues unrelentingly toward death. Even so the toxic cause should be removed. Alice R. Deutsch.
LA PROPHYLAXIE DE LA CÉCITÉ EN ROUMANIE (1940-1947). By Dr. Nicolas Blatt. Bucureçti, Imprimeria National , 1947. In this 68-page monograph, Blatt dis
cusses the problem of blindness in Rou-mania. He briefly displays statistics, considers the causes of blindness, and gives a critical review of such social measures as the laws that apply to vaccination against smallpox, the application of the Credé procedure, and industrial accidents, schools for amblyopes, pensions for the blind, eugenics, and social insurance.
F. H. Haessler.