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The first two editions of this classic monograph on neuro-ophthalmology were written in 1947 and 1957 by Dr. Walsh, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as the sole author. He has been joined by Dr. William Fletcher Hoyt, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurological Surgery, University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco. It is a monumental work and is in reality a complete textbook of neurology and nonsurgical ophthalmology.
Many major changes have been made "to bring the text in line with demands of contemporary neuro-ophthalmic diagnosis." The text has been subjected to considerable rearrangement, new chapters have been added, and much of the material in the second edition has been rewritten, bringing it up to date.
All of the chapters are profusely illustrated with tables and a total of approximately 1,000 figures, many of which are entirely