Some Cases of Traumatic Myopia.

capsule. These changes can be noted in the micro-photographs. At no place could the marked thinning of the capsule or the feltwork appearance of the tissue described by Vogt be made out. The subcapsular epithelium appears normal but in one place it is duplicated. No debris of detached capsule could be recognised in the angle of the anterior chamber. Vogt3 described five cases which he had the opportunity of examining anatomically. In these he described the separation of the anterior fibres as being somewhat similar to the normal passage of the zonule from the lens capsule, except that it is more axial and in the opposite direction. Open feltwork appearance, peeling and degeneration were the apparently progressive changes noted by him. The changes now described and illustrated are essentially the same as those recorded by Vogt and our case is of some interest as being the first to be described pathologically from this country. The microphotographs were lent to Mr. Harrison Butler and figure in his Presidential Address at the Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom on April 20, 1939.4 We express our thanks to the President and Council of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom for the use of the blocks of the microphotographs.