The Etiology of Syphilitic Aortitis

Abstract

of those who are concerned with the management of this organization, that conservation of vision in the widest acceptation of the term should be a function of paramount importance in the administration of its affairs. It is impossible in the time at my disposal to do more than make reference to the problem, for example, which surrounds the education of those who are highly myopic, the necessity of classifying them according to the degree of their visual defect, and of arranging their work accordingly. This has been the subject of much study, on the part, for example, of Mr. N. Bishop Harman in London, where, as you know, there are schools, or if not schools, departments in schools, where these high myopes, properly graded, are instructed with full consideration of their visual handicap. The same is true in the city of Berlin. SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND AND PARTLY SIGHTED But it must be evident that there are many children who, in general terms, are classified as "partially blind" and "partially sighted," and they constitute an essen¬ tially different group from the myopes to whom I have made reference. As Mr. Burritt puts it, from the point of view of the educator of seeing children, they are "partially blind" ; from that of the educator of blind children they are "partly sighted." They repre¬