Local Sulphonamide Therapy of Dendritic Ulcer.

say 2 weeks later, the ulcer wouild inflame again, and we would be compelled to cover the cornea again, as has happened. Even 2-3 months later we have seen a weak relapse with a small hypopyon for a few days. As far as our observations go, the interval of at least 6 months has to be kept. It is surprising, how willingly our patients wait, till the set term is over. The re-opening is a simple procedure. We lift the conjunctiva somewhere on the cornea, make a hole in it through which we introduce the scissors and cut away the flap all around inside the limbus. The parts grown together are detached as a pseudopterygium by iris-spatula and keratome. One has to take care not to leave a thin capsular layer on the cornea. The eye is dressed for 1 to 3 days. Encouraged by the satisfactory results, recently we have begun to extend considerably the sphere of application of the total hooding, t.e., to all acute and chronic keratitic processes unhealed or not healing well, such as ulcerated and degenerated pannus, ulcus destruens, herpes corneae, kerato-mycosis, neuroparalytic ketatitis. Once we applied it to an enormous exophthalmos in Graves' disease with excellent result. Thus the total conjunctival hooding of the cornea became at my clinic an increasingly employed proceeding for keratitic processes and it is my firm conviction that we can save eyes by it, that would be otherwise inevitably lost. /