BIRMINGHAM EYE INFIRMARY

Abstract

Or the eight cases, recorded from my own observation, of *aumatic or other cataracts, wherein the companion lens was not affected, or only so in a very incipient degree, there is one whose history after the treatment is not complete; and, having recently obtained some interesting particulars respecting him, I am desirous, before the volume of the JOURNAL for the present year closes, to present them to its raders. Thos. Holding (Case XXVI, ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, P. 580) had a traumatic cataract extracted by me onethe 9th of May last, because it was dislocated, and attended by severe pain and ophthalmia. The intention of the operation was completely fulfilled, inasmuch as the pain and ophthalmia were quickly cured by it, and the patient was enabled to resume his work in a little more than three weeks after its performance. His sight at this time was dim when the