I have read with great interest the article contributed by Major J. N. Duggan, d.o. (Oxon.), of Bombay, describing in detail the method of deep infiltration anaesthesia of the orbit. Since then I had occasion *to use this form of anaesthesia in 11 cataract operations and in 2 cases of sclero-corneal trephining operations for sub-acute glaucoma. Though this is not in itself a big record to go up...

One member of this family developed a spontaneous choroidal detachment about three months after sclero-corneal trephining, and tbI persisted unchanged for a year. It was (unsuccessfully) tven0d by a cautery puncture and is still present. The second family comprises six siblings out of a family of ten, one of whom died in infancy. Of the nine living siblings, eight are said to be glaucomatous, a...