The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

Old World cover well-documented events, and to European readers the greatest interest lies in the essays-about a third of the total here presented-that deal with the emergence of ophthalmology in the United States during the second half of the last century. As elsewhere, saints and sinners-generally colourful-pass across the stage; and tragedy too, as shown by the essay on Homberger. ARNOLD SORSBY