This text of 285 pages is a carefully-edited account of the Prague Glaucoma Symposium of 1976.The material, which is divided into 7 chapters, includes papers on haemodynamics, aqueous dynamics, nerve head circula- tion, surgical prognosis, screening, ocular hypertension, and the laser.There are many papers of great interest from acknowledged masters in the various fields, but these are interspersed with others of less high quality.This is only to be expected in view of the nature of the publication, which is not an integrated textbook but a collection of papers.Some of the papers are of particular interest and contain fundamental statements of great importance.For example (page 9), Weigelin and Salminen state, 'No conclusive clue can be found in the extensive literature to any relation between perfusion pressure and the prognosis of an individual case of glaucoma'.Their paper alone, which is a masterpiece of close reasoning, would make the book worthwhile and is a worthy introduction to the wealth of material that follows.
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