RETINAL HEMORRHAGES IN THE NEW-BORN

The study of eye injuries of the new-born has attracted the attention of numerous writers during the last two generations. With the invention of the ophthalmoscope, men began to study the eyegrounds of the new-born as well as of the adult. Soon papers appeared dealing with the eyeground anomalies as discovered during the first hours and days of life. In the recently published monograph of Ehrenfest, 1 the subject is presented in a manner that brings home again the importance of a possible correlation of ocular findings of all sorts with definite features of the labor, since an understanding of such correlation would help in preventing some of the sequelae of birth injuries. How far ocular examinations may assist in diagnosticating intracranial lesions and what the relationship is between ophthalmologic phenomena and labor is a field still full of possibilities, if one is to judge by a study of the