Post-operative Distress in Cases of Senile Cataract.

IHE subject of my address is:-" The causes and treatment of post-operativ'e distress following operation for cataract, other than that due to surgical complications." The preand post-operative management of senile cataract was discussed at the meeting of The Ophthalmological Society at Edinburgh in 1932, but most of the speakers confined themselves to discussion of surgical complications, and only a few referred briefly to the problems I propose to discuss at some length this evening. Probably we have all been told by patients after convalescence. that the actual operation was not nearly such an unpleasant experience as they expected, but that the few davs following it were extremely trying. Many have had sucha bad time during this period, that dread of a repetition of the experience makes them most unwilling to undergo a second operation if sufi becomes Advisable. This post-operative distress is partly physical and partly mental, and physical and mental factors react oyi Aipon the other.