CASE III.--H. T., watchmaker's assistant, aged forty-two, suffered for about three weeks with very severe remittent abdominal pain, entirely unconnected with dyspepsia, constipation, or diarrhoea. It was intermittent in character, but observation soon showed that the times at which it came on were simply those at which the stomach had gone longest without food, especially the early morning, and that nourishment never failed to relieve it. The suffering was great, and the man failed considerably in general health, notwithstanding that his appetite and digestion were unimpaired. He had only been under my care about ten days when he presented himself one day at the hospital, and stated that the pains in the stomach had entirely left him, but that he suffered the most frightful pains in and around the right eye. I found a well-marked conjunctival congestion and lachrymation, but there were as yet no tender points; the neuralgia was felt most severely in the globe of the eye and in one tolerably straight line, darting up toward the vertex from the brow. The iris seemed clear and free, and the cornea was not cloudy. I gave the man a subcutaneous injection of one-sixth grain acetate of morphia, for present ease, and ordered him muriate of iron and small doses of strychnia three times a day. When he next appeared, four days later, I was alarmed to perceive that unmistakable iritis had fully developed itself, the iris was already turbid and discolored and the pupil irregular, from a serious amount of adhesions. By this time there were fully-developed tender points, supra-orbital and parietal; besides this, pressure on the globe caused paroxysms of pain, in all the branches of the ophthalmic division, but there was not much spontaneous pain. I dropped atropine in the eye, applied blistering fluid to the back of the neck, [the nape of the neck is the point most suitable for blistering which is intended to affect the eye, and the ophthalmic division of the fifth, generally,] and desired the man to come to see me at my own house next day, intending to take him to an ophthalmic surgeon. Unfortunately he failed to do this, and three days later, when he came to see me at the hospital, the cornea was studded with opacities, the pupil was almost closed with effused lymph, there was violent ocular pain, and a great and increasing sense of tension. I begged him to go without loss of time to the Eye Hospital, as my own ophthalmic colleague was not at Westminster that day; and I have never heard any more of the patient.