An Oculist Looks at Endocrine Exophthalmos

Abstract

Based on a talk delivered before the Royal Medical Society on Friday. 12th December 1958.When it was suggested to me that I should talk around some subject that held interest beyond the strictly ophthalmological one I saw a chance to present the ophthalmologist as someoneother than a man confined within the bony boundaries of his orbit, often fighting stern actions to defeat the invasive tactics of his neighbours, the neuro surgeons and the nose and throat doctors. Here was an opportunity to demonstrate the many connections of our subject and the many other branches of medical practice with which we are at times associated, ranging from neurology and rheumatology, through paediatrics, midwifery, and dermatology, to metabolic disease and endocrinology--to mention but a few of the pies in which anophthalmological finger may be found.