=Uveitis.=--The type of inflammation of the uvea found in these specimens was plastic, and was mostly confined to the iris and ciliary body. The intensity of the inflammation varied very greatly. In a number of specimens the evidence of inflammatory action was either absent or only to be detected on very careful examination. On the other hand, a large number of cases present themselves at Indian hospitals in which suppurative panophthalmitis has followed the operation of couching. In Madras such globes were eviscerated, as it was considered dangerous to enucleate them, and much interesting material has thus been lost. All the intermediate stages between the very slight and the very severe inflammations can be traced in the specimens before us. This is in accordance with what we should have expected in what was practically a series of inoculations of healthy globes with pathological materials, which varied enormously in their nature and in the quantity introduced. Nor must we forget the great differences in the ages and in the conditions of health of the patients. The plastic mass poured out from the ciliary body and iris had in many cases enveloped the remains of the lenses (Pl. V., Fig. 31; also Pl. III., Fig. 19), which can be seen in process of disintegration under the action of phagocytosis (Pl. V., Figs. 32 and 33) or of fluid absorption. Evidence of calcification of the lens was obtained in at least one specimen (Pl. VI., Fig. 35), and the same process was also found at work in the uveal coat of several others. The rupture of the lens capsule often provides a ready path of ingress for the inflammatory exudate, which can then be seen filling the cavity of the capsule as well as surrounding it. The curly remains, both of the anterior and of the posterior portions of the capsule, can be clearly traced in many of the specimens, imbedded in dense masses of organising inflammatory exudate. In several such, the absence of the capsule opposite or to one side of the pupillary area, and the curled-up ends of the elastic membrane, mark the spot where rupture was effected at the time of operation. PLATE V Fig. 28: Specimen No. 130.--The iris shows a deep jagged tear. There are two scars made at the operation, one over the posterior part of the ciliary body, the other near the equator of the eye. Numerous white dots are seen on the choroid and iris. Fig. 29: Specimen No. 148.--There is a localised patch of inflammation within the globe behind the equator; in this was found a foreign body, probably the tip of the copper probe used in the operation. It lay in the vitreous cavity within the retina, which is totally detached.