TY - JOUR AU - Griffiths, P. AB - OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY : REVIEWS A short book on biomicroscopy like this one has been needed Ocular Signs in Slit-Lamp Microscopy for some time. The author, by curtailing descriptions of apparatus and by omitting unimportant details, has written a book of the James Hamilton DogearL London : Henry Klmpton. 1949. right length which is also very readable. Both undergraduate and xlii + 112 pages ; 93 figures. 24 x 16 cm. £1 1s. [£1.05] postgraduate students will find it extremely useful, if they want (I) The value of slit-lamp microscopy; (if) technique of examination ; (111) more detailed information they can read the large treatise of M. L. the normal eye ; (iv) corneal abnormality : (v) aqueous disturbance* : (vi) Berliner (Biomicroscopy of the eye. New York, 1943) and the three pathological signs In the iris: (vil) lenticular changes ; (rill) change* in the vitreous; (lx) the evolution of slit-lamp microscopy of the living eye. Appen- volumes by Alfred Vogt (Lehrbuch und Atlas der Spaltlampen- dix. Bibliography. Index. mikroskopie des lebenden Auges: vols. 1 and 2, Berlin, 1930-31 ; vol. 3, Zurich, 1941). This is the only modern textbook on slit-lamp microscopy The quality of the colour plates TI - Book Reviews: SURGERY & OPTHALMOLOGY JF - British Medical Bulletin DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a073735 DA - 1950-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-surgery-opthalmology-gFPIwiwO7l SP - 110 EP - 110 VL - 7 IS - 1-2 DP - DeepDyve ER -