Psychosomatic phenomena in ophthalmology.

I WISH to express my thanks to the Royal College of Surgeons for the honour they have done me in asking me to deliver this lecture. Medicine owes 'a considerable debt of gratitude to the pathologists who, during the last hundred years, have so materially contributed to our understanding of the various diseases, but sometimes one wonders whether we did not pay a price for this. Several generations of physicians have been trained to look for structural changes every time a patient comes with abnormal symptoms. If no physical signs can be found, then the complaint is considered illegitimate, neurotic or psychogenetic, and the patient is taken none too seriously; but, since the complaint