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Second edition. Edited by Robert Ritch, M. Bruce Shields, and Theodore Krupin. 1807 pp. in three volumes, illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1996. $299. ISBN 0-8016-7702-5.

This handsome set of books on glaucoma provides a comprehensive description of the state of the art. This second edition builds on the strengths of the first edition. I looked particularly at volume 3, Glaucoma Therapy. The book begins with a section on pharmacology, and the first chapter, on compliance, is important. The author takes an objective view of the evidence suggesting that noncompliance is frequent, but he tempers his interpretation of the literature with a compassionate clinician's approach to understanding this behavior and to working with the patient to try to maximize compliance. The brief section on the instillation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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