RT Journal
T1 SUrgery of the eye
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD December 17
VO 141
IS 16
SP 1195
OP 1195
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02910160085031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910160085031
AB Wiener's intensely practical "atlas" of ophthalmic surgery has been carefully revised, and he has adhered to his original intention of supplying the student of ophthalmology and the practicing ophthalmologist with a ready reference guide. He has wisely refrained from attempting to refer to or describe every operation.However, all of the important ocular disturbances requiring surgical correction are treated from the standpoint of his extensive surgical experience, and the operation he describes is the one he has found to be most satisfactory. The work is clearly written, and he makes a point of having an illustration to describe each step of his technic. The chapters on general consideration and on the preparation of the patient should be read by every ophthalmic surgeon. The incidence of postoperative inflammatory complications would be greatly reduced if all would adhere to his advice that there should be no "active focal points of infection." Barkan's