. Annals of medical history. innermost part of the diagram is in-tended to portray the prototype of man,Adam, the protoplast, the first certain other similar early schemes theoutermost part of the diagram suggests We have to thank several friends for helpwith this article: Dr. J. K. Fotlieringham hassupplied us with information for the interpretationof the Calendar. Father John Fletcher has drawnour attention to the Anglo-Saxon sundial and either actually or allegorically Him in whoseimage man was made. It was thus in-tended to suggest that just as we mayknow something of God, the C
. Annals of medical history. innermost part of the diagram is in-tended to portray the prototype of man,Adam, the protoplast, the first certain other similar early schemes theoutermost part of the diagram suggests We have to thank several friends for helpwith this article: Dr. J. K. Fotlieringham hassupplied us with information for the interpretationof the Calendar. Father John Fletcher has drawnour attention to the Anglo-Saxon sundial and either actually or allegorically Him in whoseimage man was made. It was thus in-tended to suggest that just as we mayknow something of God, the Creator, fromthe world that he has wrought, so by aknowledge of that world there is revealedto us something of the nature of man thecreature.^^ has provided Fig. 5 and its legend. Mr. W. has given us suggestions as to the passageof the names for the four cardinal points into tiieEuropean languages and Dr. E. T. Withington hascontributed towards our estimate of the genealogyof the physical and physiological THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC WORK ON SPECTACLESBy CASEY A. WOOD, M. D. CHICAGO, ILL. ABOUT six years ago the Libraryof the Surgeon General of theArmy, through the courtesy ofthe late Dr. Mortimer Frank,acquired a copy of Daca de Valdezs workon spectacles. This small, octavo volume,published at Seville by Diego Perez in 1623,an illustrated book of 199 (99I2 double)pages, is replete with interest. In the firstinstance, it is an extremely rare work; veryfew copies are known and the officials of theSurgeon Generals Library have been unableto trace the public sale of a single one. In thesecond instance, the monograph is interestingbecause it is the first scientific work on thesubject under treatment; and, finally, itspublication throws some light on the statusof scientific works and workers in the Spainof the early seventeenth century. The title page, as shown by the accom-panying photograph, tells us that the bookis written on the use of spectacles for everykind of sig
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