A Case of Chronic Mikulicz's Disease of the Right Lachrymal Sac

j A female, aged 65, of the Adidravida caste, came to me on 14th March, 1931, with an ulcerating swelling j of the right lachrymal sac. The surface of the growth was granular and devoid of skin, and the centre of the I granular area exhibited a small sinus through which thin I purulent material escaped. The left lachrymal sac was not affected. The duration of the disease was two years. As I was on the lookout for a rhinosporidial affection I of the lachrymal sac, the specimen, after operation, was | sent to the Professor of Protozoology of the Calcutta I School of Tropical Medicine where the growth was identified as " Mikulicz's tumour." The report on the j section of the growth was as follows:? ! " A granuloma full of polymorphonuclear leucocytes with Mikulicz's cells on a hyaline background; long I columns of endothelial cells forming new blood vessels are also seen."