Two charity patients who are the subjects of this report came to the clinic of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in October, 1928. One, a man, aged 26, had had an injury two years before from a steam explosion, which had resulted in enucleation of the left eye. The right eye was retained, but with a large total symblepharon continuous with the upper fornix and extending over the upper half of the cornea (fig. 1) ; the entire cornea was densely opaque, no transparent corneal substance being visible; the tension was normal; vision was limited to perception of light. The other patient was a man, aged 32, with a fairly small but well defined sarcoma of the choroid in the equatorial region. The conjunctiva, cornea and iris were normal, and the vision was 20/16.
The plight of these two men could suggest only one course of procedure