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 …

GLAUCOMA is a condition in which the intraocular pressure is intermittently or continuously
higher than the optimum pressure which the organism has developed as a physiologic …

1. It is a heredoconstitutional functional disease, involving primarily the function of central
regulation of the intraocular pressure. 2. In some persons, as a result of inherited influences …

It is a great honor to be asked to deliver this 25th lecture commemorating our col league,
Francis I. Proctor. Until now, the Proctor lectures have always been given by …

GLAUCOMA is a pathologic condition of the eye in which an elevation of intraocular
pressure results in damage to or even complete loss of vision. It may be stated at this point …

The great diseases present many fascinat ing problems. Simple glaucoma is, in my opinion,
one of these diseases. It is frequent in old people and because the number of old people in …

After many decades of unsatisfactory surgical interference in this class of cases, the above
eitle may excite little interest, as manyclinicians of experience are skeptical of good results, a …

Judged by its literature, the causation of glaucoma is unsettled. No effort to harmonize
undoubted facts has met with general support. Whether glaucoma is a deformity or a …

There is and should be a great deal of hesitancy in presenting a new operative technic
aimed at the reduction of increased intra-ocular tension. This applies particularly to the …

It is not without interest that this is the reverse of the usual diurnal variation in the blood
pressure which depends upon bodily activity and on the average tends to fall during sleep at …