Cocaine in the Treatment of Hypopion

believe no mention of this property of the drug lias been made in the medical journals. It came under my observation accidentally at this hospital, in the case of a Borah woman, aged 30, suffering from keratitis and hypopion in both eyes. At the time she arrived I was in the wards, but on account of the great pain and photophobia from which she was suffering, my assistant put some drops of a 2 per cent, solution of cocaine in both eyes, and told her to wait. When I came into the out-patient department lie brought her up to me, when to his astonishment he found that the hypopion in the left eye had disappeared, and that that in the right eye was greatly diminished. He assured me that the hypopion was well marked in both eyes, that in the right eye having been very extensive. I could not quite believe it,