BOOK REVIEWS 259

GENERAL OPHTHALMOLOGY. By Daniel Vaughan, Robert Cook, and Taylor As-bury. Los Altos, California, Lange Medical Publications, 1958. 319 pages, illustrated, glossary of ophthalmic terms, index. Price: $4.50. This well-illustrated paper-bound book

was designed by its authors to "provide a concise yet reasonably complete, up-to-date review of a difficult specialty for use by medical students, general physicians, in­ternists, and resident physicians in ophthal­mology. We hope it will serve these groups as a companion volume to the standard texts as well as a quick reference guide to the management of the more common disorders in their daily practice." It might be added that it would prove to be very useful in pre­paring for the Board Examinations. Drs. Vaughn and Cook are associated with the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California School of Medicine, Dr. As-bury, ex-resident of that department is now assistant professor of ophthalmology, Col­lege of Medicine, University of Cincinnati. All are bright, young, energetic men, who have had superb training and considerable clinical experience.

All of the illustrations are in black and white. Some of them are excellent photo­graphs, others beautiful line drawings by Prof. Ralph Sweet of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California School of Medicine. There are also many useful tables, an excellent appendix of com­monly used eye medications, and a vocabu­lary of terms relating to the eye that will be most useful to the beginner in ophthalmology.

There are 21 chapters covering the entire field of ophthalmology, in outline form, pre­

supposing of course that the reader is either familiar with the usual textbooks or will supplement each chapter with concurrent reading in the textbooks. It cannot, nor is it designed to be, used as a textbook itself. For its limited purpose, the authors have succeeded in giving us a useful and supple­mentary tool to our studies. Each ophthalmic resident should own a copy.

Derrick Vail, M.D.

TUMORI ORBITO-PARANSALI. By Fregni, Ric-cardo, and De Poli, Attilio. Supplement 28 (1957) of Archivio Italiano di Otologia, Rinologia e Laringologia. Ophthalmologists will find this excellent

monograph most useful. It is written by an otolaryngologist and ophthalmologist; their collaboration has produced a thorough dis­cussion of the nature, diagnosis, and treat­ment of neoplasms which proliferate in the orbit and the contiguous paranasal sinuses. The text (333 pages) is clear and authorita­tive. The clinical discussions are preceded by a thorough presentation of the necessary anatomic, embryologic, and vascular rela­tionships. The major portion of the book is devoted to an account of the authors' clinical experience with (1) orbital invasion by tumors which originate in the nose, the para­nasal sinuses and retropharyngeally, (2) tu­mors which have their origin in the lids, the eyeball or intracranial tissues, and (3) tu­mors which are primary in the orbit. The differential diagnosis is discussed in a sepa­rate chapter. There is a 12-page bibliography.

This monograph is highly recommended. F. H. Haessler.