The nature of the intra-ocular fluids and the pressure equilibrium in the eye

Abstract

The present Thesis is, in the first place, a study in the bio-chemistry of the intra-ocular fluids under normal conditions and as they appear under experimental variations from the normal. It is by no means a new study, and much work - often, it is true, fragmentary - has been done upon it by different authors at various times for varying purposes. This work I have freely drawn upon; where there have been gaps in our knowledge I have endeavoured to fill them, and to present the whole in a coherent form. By unifying the whole, a fairly authoritative statement of the physico-chemical nature of the intra-ocular fluids can be deducted. Thereafter, in the light of these findings, a study is made of the factors responsible for the maintenance and variation of the intra-ocular pressure.