Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter I GENERAL: AETIOLOGY
- Chapter II DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- Chapter III THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVOLVED TISSUES: THEIR EMBRYOLOGY AND THEIR COMPARATIVE ANATOMY
- Chapter IV THE PATHOLOGY OF CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA Pages 99 to 188
- Chapter IV THE PATHOLOGY OF CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA 189 to 229
- Chapter V PATHOGENESIS
- Chapter VI TREATMENT
- Chapter VII PROGNOSIS
- Chapter VIII GENERAL REFLECTIONS
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter I GENERAL: AETIOLOGY
- Chapter II DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- Chapter III THE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVOLVED TISSUES: THEIR EMBRYOLOGY AND THEIR COMPARATIVE ANATOMY
- Chapter IV THE PATHOLOGY OF CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA Pages 99 to 188
- Chapter IV THE PATHOLOGY OF CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA 189 to 229
- Chapter V PATHOGENESIS
- Chapter VI TREATMENT
- Chapter VII PROGNOSIS
- Chapter VIII GENERAL REFLECTIONS
- Index
Summary
CONSULTING ROOM, MELBOURNE, 1933.
Father of a 9-year-old boy blind from congenital glaucoma. Grahame had a trephine operation on each eye when he was a year old. Would he have had a better chance without such treatment?
Surgeon. I do not know.
Father. Do any untreated patients with this disease retain sufficient vision to enable them to earn their living for a few years?
Surgeon. I do not know.
Father. If he marries will his children be affected?
Surgeon. I do not know.
The following pages are the result of an attempt to answer these questions: Through the generosity of Messrs G. J. and E. B. Coles, it was possible to send out 874 Questionnaire forms to 346 oculists throughout the world. A summary of the data obtained will be found later in this book.
The author is grateful to the following surgeons for supplying valuable material: Humphrey Neame, London; E. O. Marks, Brisbane; W. R. Fairclough, Auckland, and J. M. Wheeler, New York. The author is indebted to Professor A. W. Mulock Houwer and Captain v. Blaauboer for the specimens from Tarsius. The following pathologists have most willingly aided in its investigation: Drs Rupert Willis, R. B. Maynard and Adelaide Gault. Dr Kevin O'Day kindly allowed the author to examine his sections of Dasyurus and Pseudochirus. The microphotographs are by Mr Lewis Booth of the Alfred Hospital and Mr H. Marriott of the Department of Anatomy, Melbourne University. The author would express his appreciation of the generosity of those who permitted the use of plates from older works. To Miss Jean McNab and Miss Elizabeth Agar the author would offer his warmest thanks for hours spent in typing and translation.
If it had not been for the enthusiasm and the outstanding ability of Miss Diana Mann, B.Sc, this book would not have been written. For three years her eagerness to understand some of the mysteries of congenital glaucoma has led her through many hundred pages of foreign works, through the examination of several hundred slides and through the almost endless arduous tasks that are known only by those who carry out a work of this kind. For these labours the author is deeply grateful.
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- Hydrophthalmia or Congenital GlaucomaIts Causes, Treatment, and Outlook, pp. xix - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013