normal. I should have put the difficulty I had in making a diagnosis down to my having overlooked some detail, had it not been that the patient was for a considerable time under treatment at an eye hospital. The explanation I am inclined to adopt, for want of a better, is this, that the original blow caused the anterior elastic lamina with the epithelium to become detached. The nutrition of the epithelium might thus be kept up, and every movement which pressed upon the surface would bring the detached membrane down on the corneal nerve filaments. But it must be confessed it is not easy to understand how this condition could remain stationary for five years. DEADY. =Hines, M. D., Oliver S.—Iodide of Stannum in Tuberculosis.=—_The Amer. Hom._, March 15, 1900. The author thinks iodide of stannum often preferable to stannum in tuberculosis. He uses it when the patient has a clear complexion and long eyelashes and where the progress of the disease is rapid. He reports a case for which the 2x trituration was given, in which there was “a marked tubercular affection of the chest, increased vocal fremitus, an abundance of thick yellow and sweetish sputum, sweat at night, and rapid emaciation.” The result was encouraging. PALMER. =Kyle, M. D., D. Braddon.—Initial Forms of Tubercular Laryngitis.=—_Inter. Med. Mag._, March, 1900. The enumeration and exact description of these prodromal symptoms are so important that we copy them in full. The following, which is a translation of an article by Monsarrat of Paris (_Rev. Hebdom. Laryngol., d’Otol., et de Rhinol._, No. 43, October 28, 1899), covers the ground so thoroughly that it is worthy of repetition: “Laryngeal phthisis completely developed presents multiple and varied symptoms, some more characteristic than others. In one patient are found symptoms functionally grave, out of proportion to the lesions relatively benign. In another, physical signs take first place; there may be an ulceration completely obliterating one cord, or considerable œdema of the arytenoids and vestibule, which closes the opening of the glottis. Having reached the period when tuberculosis is easily recognized, the various patients are able to date their laryngitis from diverse pathologic beginnings. This one will present solely the history of a cough, the other a raucous voice, in another pain will take precedence. In mentioning these various modes of commencement we insist on the connection which may exist between each of them and the localization at the beginning of tuberculosis, on one or the other parts of that complex organ known as the larynx. Let us divide the symptoms into the functional and the laryngoscopic. The connection or antithesis between them will be noticed.