Given the aging population, the likelihood of eye care providers encountering Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) will be high. Awareness of CBS is essential so that misdiagnosis and subsequent treatment for a non-existent psychiatric disease is prevented. After vision loss, patients can experience simple hallucinations such as unformed shapes or patterns, or complex hallucinations in the form of rec...

from the opening article in Die medicinische Reform: "Die Arzte sind die naturlichen Anwalte der Armen und die sociale Frage fallt zu einem erheblichen Theil in ihre Jurisdiction." The continued interest of the issues addressed in Virchow's weekly is shown by the present photomechanical reproduction from East Germany. It comes not many years after a West German edition (Georg Olms Verlag, Hilde...