HEREDITY is often stressed as an important factor in the pathogenesis of glaucoma. Yet, to
date, only approximately 90 pedigrees of families with glaucoma have been reported in the …

Riot control agents (tear gases) cause intense eye irritation and reflex squeezing of the
eyes. The intraocular pressure under these circumstances is unknown hut animal and …

One might assume that gonioscopy principally established the importance of angle closure
in glaucoma. In fact, narrowing of the angle in glaucoma had been described since the early …

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 …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Rabbits and ducks were the subjects used in these
experiments. The intraocular pressure was determined tonometrically. Two of the rabbits …

on the effects of curare, which paralyzes the extraocular muscles and lowers ten sion.
Schoenberg5 tenotomized the eyes of rabbits and found that tension was lowered for a few …

The object of this investigation was to determine: A (1) The tension in the normal and
glaucomatous human eyeball in a consecutive series of private patients of varying ages, in …

The classification of glaucoma into acute, chronic congestive, and chronic simple forms is
based on the clinical course of average typical cases. It does not take into account, however …