Histology of the Human Eye: An Atlas and Textbook

It is no exaggeration to say that there is no understanding of the function of that marvelous organ of primary sensory contact, the eye, without a detailed knowledge of its compact, elegant, and mysterious structure. For years the standard for this study was Salzmann'sAnatomie und Histologie des menschlichen Augapfels, published in 1912. (Fortunately, for nonpossessors of German, an authorized English translation by E. V. L. Brown appeared the same year.) Since that time new textbooks have appeared—Duke-Elder,Textbook of Ophthalmologyvolume 1, Wolff'sAnatomy of the Eye and Orbit, Duke-Elder,System of Ophthalmologyvolume 2—but these were in essence only Salzmann with color added or with photographs instead of drawings. Now is published the first really new book on histology of the eye in 60 years. It appears on the surface to be only histology as seen through the electron rather than the light microscope. However, even a casual