Traquair's Clinical Perimetry

When Traquair published the first edition of his "Introduction to Clinical Perimetry" in 1927, it quickly became the standard textbook on this subject in the English speaking world, being widely adopted by ophthalmologists, neurologists, and neurosurgeons. His concept of the visual field as "an island of vision in a sea of blindness," his graphic descriptions of the topography of that island, his promotion of the values of quantitative perimetry, and the lucid interpretation of perimetric and tangent screen findings served to make his book a classic in the field. Each subsequent edition showed further improvements, the sixth edition having appeared in 1949. Dr. Traquair died in 1954 at the age of 79. The present author has retained much of the original flavor of the previous editions but has brought the work up to date. He has emphasized the value of the confrontation test, rewritten the chapters on glaucoma and affections