The Ocular Adnexa

Abstract

This last volume of Duke-Elder's<i>System of Ophthalmology</i>maintains the same high standards found in the previously published 14 volumes. It represents the most complete and authoritative modern account of diseases of the ocular adnexa. Part 1 deals to a great extent with the territory that ophthalmology shares with dermatology, and this book should be known to dermatologists. Here, pictures of disease are all-important, and there are copious illustrations in black and white. One could wish that present-day publishing costs had allowed more colored illustrations. Part 2 covers more varied territory. Diseases of the lacrimal secretory apparatus differ widely from those of the lacrimal drainage system. Diseases of the orbit are conditioned by yet another set of circumstances, particularly the rigidity of the orbital walls and the relative mobility of the globe in the face of a space-occupying lesion. However, proximity to the cranial cavity allows disease processes of the