Conjunctival Pockets.

SYMBLEPHARON is described by all authors discussing conjunctival diseases as adhesion between the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae. Its aetiology is described as purulent conjunctivitis, diphtheritic conjunctivitis, trachoma, trauma, and so on. These factors do not always cause symblepharon, but may result in a very troublesome condition, apparently not mentioned in the literature, viz. conjunctival pocketing. Two similar cases have been seen in one year, in which the patient complained of recurrent mucopurulent conjunctivitis in one eye which was not very severe and responded to the usual treatment for conjunctivitis only after prolonged application. Between attacks the patient felt some discomfort in the affected eye.