SINCE the introduction of vaccination as a therapeutic measure in 1796, between 200 and 300 cases of accidental infection of the eyelids, conjunctiva, or cornea have been reported. Doubtless more have remained unreported or unrecognized. In some cases the edges of the eyelids alone were involved, in others the conjunctival sac was involved, either primarily or secondarily from the eyelids. Corn...

Xanthelasma can be treated with acids, laser or primary suture, all presenting frequent relapses besides being inefficacious in extensive cases. The authors present the functional and esthetic result of a female patient's case with extensive xanthelasmas on the upper and lower eyelids which were removed combined with upper and lower blepharoplasty, using the skin removed from the upper eyelids ...

one or both eyelids either partial or complete to the eye-ball. The cornea may or may not participate in this adhesion but 'it usually is somewhat implicated, and this adhesion, between the eyelid and cornea, is called by some " Traumatic Pterygium:' When, besides this condition of affairs, the two eyelids adhere to each other it is called anklyoblepharon. This disease is usually the result of ...

A heat-stable protein has recently been isolated from the submaxillary gland of the male mouse which, upon injection, elicits precocious eyelid separation and tooth eruption in the newborn mouse and rat (1). The eyelids of the treated newborn mouse will separate as early as the sixth day after birth, whereas the eyelids of control animals require twelve to thirteen days to separate. The protein...