VERY many different corneo-scleral stitches are used in cataract extraction, and it is generally agreed that such stitches should be capable of closing the corneo-scleral section promptly at any stage of the operation with perfect apposition of the lips of the wound and without danger of inversion. It should, furthermore, be simple to introduce, and not hinder the subsequent steps of the operat...

The contribution Bach, Corneo and Steiner (2008) has argued that “the rich” do not pay taxes adequately in relation to their income, finding, for instance, an effective tax rate of only 38.1% for the 0.001% fractile of German income taxpayers in 2001. This result contrasts sharply with the legislated top marginal income tax rate of 48.5%. We subject the results contained in Bach, Corneo and Ste...

THE closure and healing of the wound in cataract surgery is a most important factor in the success of the operation, and various suturing techniques have been evolved. The present communication attempts to evaluate the results in 668 cases operated on from January to November, 1961. The same pre-operative preparation, operative technique, and post-operative treatment were used, and the same thr...

BETWEEN the two world wars it was realised that there was much common ground between the practice of plastic surgery and of ophthalmology: experience in World War II emphasised and established this association, and corneo-plastic surgery was born. Corneo-plastic surgery may be defined as the reconstructive surgery of the eye and adnexa which is based on the principles of plastic surgery with th...

In the past I5 years various types of scleral contact lenses have been developed for the treatment of pathological conditions of the cornea and conjunctiva. Our previous investigations found the hydrophilic corneo-scleral lens very effective in the treatment of various inflammatory and degenerative corneal changes (Krejci, I970, 1971). In our present study the Czech hydrophilic corneo-scleral c...