Polarized Light Studies Of The Cornea

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Abstract
The importance of the cornea and the peculiar circumstances of its transparency have stimulated research for many years, but despite its apparent suitability there have not been any adequate quantitative investigations by means of polarized light. We shall show in this and the following paper that this technique, besides yielding results which throw light on the ultrastructure and fibre arrangement of the tissue (Naylor, 1952), also affords a means of assessing changes in the intra-ocular pressure of the intact eye by quantitative measurements of the photo-elastic properties of the cornea.

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