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by Stephen J. Ryan, Jr., and Ronald E. Smith, 392 pp, with illus, $24.50, New York, Grune & Stratton, 1974.

Herbert E. Kaufman, MD, Reviewer
University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville

JAMA. 1975;231(10):1089.

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This well-illustrated book represents a modification and expansion of a series of lectures given at the Wilmer Eye Institute, with nearly all the contributors coming from the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School. It makes no pretense at covering the total spectrum of systemic ocular disease, but portrays well those areas selected.

Most of the book shows the same general format: a chapter by nonophthalmologists briefly summarizes systemic disease that can involve the eye, and discusses the various systemic manifestations of the disease; then follows a chapter by one of the Wilmer ophthalmologists on the ocular manifestations of that disease or group of diseases. The many different authors have many styles, and on some occasions the "systemic" and "ocular" chapters are somewhat redundant. However, the writing, on the whole, is excellent.

The first chapters involve retinal vascular disease beginning with the respiratory distress syndrome in children and its most . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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