The long-term regulation of intraocular pressure is remarkably independent of other
physiologic and pathologic variables in the human organism. On the other hand, intraocular …

The physiology and pathology of the intraocular pressure have now been explored to the
stage of development of good working hypotheses. General hydrodynamic principles …

Practically every issue of our ophthalmic journals contains one or more articles re lating to
glaucoma. The research laboratories are endeavoring to unravel the causes of the …

Method The patients selected for trial were nine male and six female with an age range of 46
to 74. The patients were admitted to hospital for the trial. Intraocular pressures were …

SEVERAL analogies may be drawn between glaucoma and vascular hypertension. Each is
a persistent increase in pressure above the normal values, which admittedly have a wide …

MATERIALS AND METHODS During the past seven years, Gaasterland and I have been
studying the effect of drugs on the aqueous humor dynamics in normal young and old …

The office management of a disease such as glaucoma offers a formidable challenge.
Therapeutic nimbleness must be based upon sound knowledge and continued perusal of …

The large number of failures in the treatment of glaucoma may be attributed to only one
cause: our ignorance regarding the nature of this disease. When Mackenzie and von Graefe …

Although many textbooks state that the treatment of glaucoma is surgical regardless of the
stage in which it is encountered in actual practice, this is not true. I am in accord with most of …

HE PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW is to discuss the mechanisms of the formation and outflow
of the aqueous humor, and the participation of these two processes in the regulation of the …