DAVIES. I972. Pp. 274, 30 figs. Barrie and Jenkins, London. (/8.oo) This book was written as a textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics for student ophthalmic opticians, and where it confines itself to the scope suggested by its title it is more than adequate. The ophthalmologist would probably be surprised by the amount of pharmacological knowledge required by the student optician. The chapter on the autonomic innervation of the eye would be sufficient for a medical student sitting the second M.B. examination.