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krantz—0.1-percent toluidine blue applied to the mucopolysaccharide secretion results in an abundant precipitate colored violet. In­vestigation of the trachoma virus demon­strated a close antigenic relationship between the Chinese and Israel strains. Auerbach, previously associated with Wald, continued in Israel his studies on the mechanism of vision. Research in the history of medicine has been facilitated by the Harry Frieden­wald Library. This celebrated ophthalmolo­gist was a zealous student of medical history, wrote the scholarly "Jewish Luminaries in Medical History," and bequeathed his li­brary to the Hebrew University, which con­tains many rare items including the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius, the Canon of Avicenna (1491) and the works of Malpighi, Morgagni and Maimonides.

One must have a dream for a dream to come true. The people of Israel may feel with some content, in the fulfilment and promise revealed in this book, that the pres­ent is the future that they dreamed of in the past.

James E. Lebensohn.

HUMAN PITUITARY HORMONES. Edited by G. E. W. Wolstenholme and M. O'Con­nor. Ciba Foundation Colloquium. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1960. 336 pages, 86 illustrations, index. Price : $9.50. This colloquium on human pituitary hor­

mones was held in Buenos Aires in August, 1959, to honor that great Argentinian phy­siologist, Bernardo Houssay. The intimate anatomic and physiologic relationship of the pituitary to the eye makes this volume of in­terest to ophthalmologists. The various pi­tuitary hormones are considered, including thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) . An ap­parently reliable method for the determina­tion of TSH is described by Bottari and values are given for the euthyroid, hypo-thyroid and hyperthyroid patient. Although there is some correlation between TSH val­ues in the blood and thyroid state, there is

no such correlation with exophthalmos. This leaves "pituitary exophthalmos" as a syn­drome rather than as a verified disease en­tity.

It is amusing to note that endocrinologists are as prone as bureaucrats to the multipli­cation of alphabetical abbreviations. In the pituitary they list the following agencies: GSH, FSH, LTH, TSH, ACTH and ICSH (or is this LH?) . These terms, incidentally, do not come from the NIH of the USPHS but they are certainly part of H E and W.

David Shoch.

LECTURE NOTES ON OPHTHALMOLOGY. By Patrick D. Trevor-Roper. Springfield, Il­linois, Charles C Thomas, 1960. 94 pages, 76 illustrations, index. Price: $3.50. Mr. Trevor-Roper has the admirable

ability of saying a great deal in few words. As a result, there is more packed into the 94 pages of this book than usually is found in volumes many times its size. His ap­proach to the review of ophthalmology is organized as to presenting complaints—the painful, red eye ; the injured eye ; sudden and gradual loss of sight in quiet eyes—and so forth. Although Lecture Notes on Oph­thalmology is written primarily as a guide for students and general practitioners, ophthal­mologists will find it enjoyable and worth­while reading.

Thomas H. F. Chalkley.

OEIL ET VIRUS. By Roger Nataf, Pierre Lépine and Georges Bonamour. Paris,

France, Masson and Company, 1960. This magnificent 1000-page monograph

provides a thorough and extensive exposi­tion of the ocular manifestations of the virus diseases of the human body. Each segment is provided with an extensive bibliography. There are 172 figures in the text and 20 excellent plates, 17 of which are in color.

F. H. Haessler.