MANY complications following corneal grafting procedures may be attributed to the technical and biological problems associated with this type of surgery. It is generally agreed that accurate apposition of the graft to the margin of the incision in the recipient cornea is of the greatest importance. Manual trephining for penetrating keratoplasty frequently results in badly cut grafts, and for th...

on sclero-corneal trephining, has not yet, I believe, led to the publication of any cases. During 1913 I operated on 17 eyes for this condition, and the results appear to me to be sufficiently encouraging to merit publication. The cases were not selected, my object being first to satisfy myself that reduction of a staphyloma could be effected by establishing free filtration between the aqueous,...

THE occurrence of cataract in association with glaucoma presents a therapeutic problem of some magnitude which has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years (Samuels, 1947; Sourdille, 1950; Chandler, 1949;, Fran9ois, 1947; Williamson-Noble, 1953). The difficulties of treatment are not made less by the uncertainty which still exists as to the role played by the glaucomatous process and ...