Noted eye specialists opened a five-day meeting here today to discuss a baffling eye ailment called "uveitis."
Uveitis is an eye inflammation, important because of the frequency of its occurrence.
Dr. William B. Clark, president of the executive committee of the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology, said uveitis was chosen as the subject of the symposium because of the importance of its treatment.
Eight principal speakers are here for the eighth annual meeting of the New Orleans academy, in the Roosevelt hotel.
Eye specialists from 38 states were present at last year's sessions, according to Dr. Clark, who says the term ophthalmologists is synonomous with oculist PHOTO: EYE SPECIALIST DR. WILLIAM B. CLARK, right, qf New Orleans, goes over details with three of the speakers at the New Orleans Academy of Ophthalmology sessions which begin today. Left to right are DR. LORENZ ZIMMERMAN of Washington, D; C; DR. SAMUEL J. KUMIRA of Berkeley, Calif., and DR. ALAN C. WOODS of Baltimore, Md.
