[Read before the Cuyahoga Medical Society January 6, 1887.] THE GALVANO-CAUTERY IN ULCERS OF THE CORNEA. Dr. A. Nieden, of Prussia, has reported (Arch. of Opthal., Dec., 1885), a series of one hundred cases of ulcers of the cornea of various kinds, from which he has had very gratifying results from the use of the galvano-cautery. He generally employs the cautery heated to a glow, and with this he thoroughly destroys all the necrosed and dead tissues, leaving a free, healthy surface for the granulations to take place upon. He claims to destroy most effectually by this means the infectious material and gets much quicker healing and less remaining opacities than by the old method. In the one hundred cases the application was made but once in ninety-three. He particularly advises its use in the serpiginous and perforating ulcers. In hypopyon the pus is rapidly absorbed and the pain of the ulcer is greatly relieved. The cautery acts most thoroughly as an antiseptic, destroying all infectious germs. TRANSPLANTATION OF THE EYE. Terrier (Archives d'Opthal, Jan.-Feb., 1886), gives a resumé of the five cases of transplantation of an animal's eye into the human orbit thus far attempted. Of the five cases, four were the eyes of rabbits and one of a dog, only one of which succeeded. Of the four unsuccessful ones the grafts failed on the fourteenth, the third, the sixth, and the nineteenth days. The patients varied in age from the seventeenth to the sixty-fifth years. The successful case was in a robust young man of thirty-five years. In suturing the eye, he recommends the method of Bradford as preferable. In this the optic nerve is sutured, the straight muscles are sutured to the subconjunctival cellular tissue, and finally the conjunctiva. Iodoform dressing with prolonged closure of the eye is recommended. ABORTION IN ALBUMENURIC RETINITIS. Retinitis albumenuria occasionally comes on during pregnancy, and the proper treatment in such cases is of interest. It has been found that when vision fails during the last two weeks of pregnancy it usually recovers after confinement. When it occurs in the eighth month or thereabouts there is generally more or less permanent impairment, while in the earlier months blindness is liable to occur and become incurable. In cases of retinitis albumenuria, therefore, not yielding to treatment, abortion should be induced. -Howe Am. Journ. Opth., May-June, 1885. AFTER TREATMENT OF CATARACT. Dr. Wecker (Annales d'Oculistique, March and April, 1886), reports some modifications in his treatment of cataracts. He first cleanses lids, conjunctiva, cornea, etc., with a solution of corrosive sublimate, makes his corneal incision as usual, removes the portion of the anterior capsule of the lens with scissor forceps, removes lens without wounding the iris, and then injects into the anterior chamber a solution of salicylate of eserine, |