No 2, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Publisher and Chief Editor Olle Holm olleholm@telia.com
We very much regret the delay of this issue of TBE; the first delay of magnitude of this newsletter during its fifteen years of publication! To make up somewhat for that we offer a unique LYYN enhanced high magnification picture of exfoliative changes of the lens capsule..never published before. There is much more. Henrik Forsius, the worlds´ foremost specialist of arctic ophthalmology covers all aspects of snowblindness. - Norn continues forwaed in the history of Danish ophthalmology. And we learn about post-soviet politics in Latvia from a Arne Bengtsson.- Finally the dangers to the eyes of fire breathing are described by Johannes H, beware!
Exposure of cornea to strong UV-light causes dramatic but essen-tially undangerous symptomato-
logy. Henrik Forsius goes into the interesting epidemiology of UV damage to the eye, particu-
larly in arctic settings

MOGENS NORN continues into last century of Danish and world ophthalmology...often stormy times...and as usual animosity between ophthalmologists

17 years after independence Latvia has reached the crossroads. Choices are between a continued Post-Soviet political system and a future-oriented European society. Read more

There are sports dangerous to the eyes of the persons who perform them....one seldom thought about is fire eating and -breathing. Johannes H tells more about it
What will become of the Nordic Battle Group? Can it be used also for defending in the Home Area? Read what Hain Rebas and others think about the new strategics around Läänemeri

ENT Professor Emeritus Lars Malm describes a little known sensory organ, the Jacobsson Broman Fluid Smell organ, with a very special function. Humans do not have it....unfortunately

-IOP and BP
-Niemeyer on ERG
-On jellyfish eyes and why
-Color vision and railroading
-Don´t divide by Zero!
-Grafitti and Ophthalmology
-Surgery microscopy too late?
-Einar A, art and ophthalmology
-Presbyopia, so what?
-Patient non-compliace...No!
-Listen to your peers...or not?

Find out why Alvar Gullstrand (see picture) was dissatisfied with Nordic ophthalmology, also what else Mogens Norn found worth reporing about in late 19th century ophthalmology

Dr Bo Sonnsjö of Sunne, Värm-land emphasizes the vascular component in Open Angle Glau-coma, also the connection bet-wen Alzheimers disease and OAG
MOGENS continues into the 20th century....so far only with Danish ophthalmology. We need people who can write ophthalmology history from other countries in the area!

TBE has never published poetry before....so it is about time
MOGENS NORN, well known to TBE readers keeps track of the past, this time the past of 1943...an evil time in Denmark and most of Europe. Read how some escaped the guys above

Per Nelleman Bang, a Danish Ophthalmologist, gives his account on the dramatic events when Danish jews escaped to Sweden in the fall of 1943, much against the will of Berlin. Read!
ICEBEARS seem to have very little to do with ophthal-mology....and they are said to face extinction if we don´t stop to use coal and oil.Is this true? Read a different truth
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz is not remembered by many. He should be. Without this Nazi partymem-bers´efforts 7000 Danish Jews would have been extinguished in Theresienstadt. Read about it
Professor Emeritus Erik Linnér, still very active scientifically, has the longest clinical career in Swedish ophthalmology. Has he any-thing to tell? Find out!
There is a new crop of Baltic ophthalmologists, young, well-educated and businessminded and eager to expand. Kai Noor of Tallinn is one of the them. Read about her and her gang
The indefatigable Mogens Norn, Professor Emeritus of Denmark, Historian Official of the Danish Ophthalmological Society continues backward in DK ophthalmology history
S N Fedorov, the Giant of all Giants in Soviet Ophthalmology once visited the University Eye Clinic in Malmö. He wanted to buy the clinic. It is still unclear why this was refused. Read
Art Giebel, brought up in Pakistan and now ophthal-mologist in America went to Latvia some years ago, to teach modern cataract surgery. He remembers
He used automobile head-lights for OR-illumination and he occasionally took a "lille en" when going rounds. Also he was the most innovative eye surgeon in Scandinavia
Bjerrum of Denmark had his reputation from visual field analyzing. Also he had many interesting thoughts about the nature of glaucoma. Be influenced!
Jay Enoch is a remarcable man. I met him first time when I worked at Washington U dpt of Ophthalmology, in 1969. A large man, Jay is, in all respects. Almost the size of the man he describes, HG
Chinese ophthalmology is big any way one looks at it. Close to 1300 million people; three-fourths in the countryside and only 23000 ophthalmologists ..worth looking into..we do
A singularity in the mathematical sense is where a function sud-denly behaves unpredictably. M K Ciurlionis was a singularity in the art world. See him in Kaunas
What started as a method to enhance color fundus photo-graphy since developed into techniques to penetrate fog and snow and more. Read