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ophthalmologist's office. A practical approach would involve the reading of this book first by the "boss" who could then mark the chap­ters that are applicable to his own practice and indicate those sections that are unneces­sary, for example, the set-up for abdominal and pelvic examinations. It is even possible that the boss himself might learn something in the process of preparing the text for his aides.

David Shoch

DERMATO-OFTALMOLOGIA. By Jose Casa-novas and Xavier Vilanova. Clothbound, 391 pages, 289 illustrations (51 in color, 238 in black and white). Barcelona, Spain, 1967. This book, the combined effort of eight

Spanish dermatologists and ophthalmologists and three German ophthalmologists, offers for the first time in Spanish medical litera­ture a well-illustrated treatise of special in­terest to members of both specialties. The first chapter, by Casanovas of Barcelona, de­tails the anatomy, histology and histopath-ology of the eyelids. This is followed by chapters on serologic and cytologic diagnosis, and on plastic surgery to correct lid defects. Beginning with the third chapter, in which dermatoses are classified according to mor­phologic manifestation, the chapters each deal with seperate groups of dermato-ophth-almic disease. Blepharitis is described by Ar-ruga of Barcelona. The next chapter deals with dermatoses due to parasites, fungi, bac­teria and viruses. Then come chapters on tu­berculosis, syphilis and leprosy; metabolic disease; deficiency diseases; diseases due to cold, heat, caustics and radiation; and toxic-allergic dermatoses. Hair follicle-sebaceous gland diseases and pigmentary diseases com­prise the next two chapters. The photo­graphs in the latter chapter, described as the Nevus of Ota, show no skin pigment changes and should more properly be described as melanosis oculi.

A description of benign and malignant

tumors and the cutaneous reticuloses in­cludes malignant tumors, keratoacanthoma and the reticuloses composed of lymphomas, lymphocytomas, lymphoblastomas, lympho-granulomas, Mikulicz syndrome, Besnier-Boeck's syndrome and mycosis fungoides. -Under syndermatotic cataract is included the Francois-Hallermann-Streif syndrome. The following chapter, on Phakomatoses, by Jaeger of Heidelberg, includes the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome which, like the Sturge-Weber syndrome, may be associated with angiomata of the face and glaucoma. Char­acteristically, the disease consists of angiec-tasia of one extremity or a large part of the body, hemihypertrophy of bone and, some­times, muscle and dilated veins resembling those associated with arteriovenous anasto­moses.

The chapter on mucocutaneous syndromes describes erythema multi forme, pemphigus, Duhring's disease, epidermolysis bullosa, Reiter's disease and Vogt-Koyanagi's syn­drome. The final chapters are on oculocuta-neous manifestation of collagen disease and one on ocular involvements in diverse der-matologic disease such as granuloma telan-giectasia, incontinentia pigmenti, psoriasis and angioid streaks (by Schreck and Wollen-sak of Erlangen). Each chapter is followed by an extensive up-to-date bibliography.

This book will be of special interest to ophthalmologists (even those who do not read Spanish) who are fascinated by the myriad of oculodermatologic diseases and who vainly attempt to classify these diseases logically.

Saul Sugar

SUR L E PROBIJIME D U TRACTOME. By Pro­fessor Dr. Svetozar Postic. Paperbound, 309 pages, 128 illustrations in black and white. Novi Sad, Yugoslavia: 1967. Professor Postic has undertaken an ex­

tensive review (written in French) in which he has attempted to summarize current knowledge on trachoma and to analyze criti-