An argument in support of the reliability of our figures may be drawn from the extraordinarily widespread opinion, amongst both European and Indian practitioners, that the vaidyans’ results are appalling. The writer had the opportunity of talking on the subject with a large number of men who practised in the parts where couching was rifest, and their testimony was unanimous. Ekambaram, who has already been freely quoted, has made these men’s methods a special study, and, impressed by the wholesale destruction of eyes he had witnessed, made the request that the matter should be brought to the notice of Government through the Surgeon-General, which was accordingly done. Apropos of the figures now under discussion, Colonel Drake-Brockman wrote: “I have seen quite enough to convince me of the truth of Major Elliot’s statement, and that his percentage of actual loss of eyes from this cause alone is by no means exaggerated.” Major Smith has given his experience of the disastrous results of couching, and has gone so far as to say that even the best cases, if followed long enough, end in absolute blindness. With this last observation we cannot wholly agree, nor do our statistics in the south bear out his opinion that “partial dislocation is more frequent than the complete dislocation in the hands of adepts in the art.” He is satisfied that a great majority of cases go bad immediately, either from suppuration or from iridocyclitis, and that a large proportion of the remainder are but imperfectly couched. Other surgeons, too, have testified to the disastrous nature of the vaidyans’ results.