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cently diseased eye. However, a careful and critical examin- 

 ation discovers that the iris is still attached to the capsule 

 of the lens ; or one may find on the capsule pigment masses 

 which were left there in the breaking away of the iris from 

 the capsule ; the iris is lighter in color — lighter brown, very 

 like the color of dead leaves. Occasionally the iris is so 

 pressed forward that it comes in contact with the cornea and 

 the anterior division of the aqueous chamber appears 

 obliterated. The pale green appearance of the pupil indi- 

 cates more or less cloudiness of the lens or vitreous humor. 

 In most cases, especially after the later attacks, there re- 

 mains a bluish ring around the margin of the cornea — a dif- 

 fuse cloudiness — the upper eyelid, instead of presenting a 

 continuous arch, exhibits an abrupt bend a short distance 

 from the inner angle; the upper lid and the eyebrow are 

 also more wrinkled than usual; after a few attacks the eye 

 ball shrinks in volume, is smaller than normal, and in the 

 interval between attacks the eye ball, by palpation, exhibits 

 uncommon softness. In most instances cloudiness of the 

 vitreous humor and detachment of the retina can only be 

 discovered by first expanding the pupil with atropine and 

 then examining the eye with the opthalmoscope. After the 

 disappearance of the acute inflammatory symptoms, or after 

 the inflammation has subsided and all damages are partially 

 repaired, or the eye has "cleared up," it may remain free 

 from another attack for a month, for two or three months or 

 even for a year. However, as a rule, the attacks occur 

 somewhat regularly every four or six weeks until the eye 

 becomes entirely blind. This disease generally results in 

 the formation of a total cataract and occasionally in paralysis 

 of the retina or optic nerve — amaurosis. The attacks may 

 vary in severity in the different cases, but the successive at- 

 tacks in each case grow more severe and leave behind more 

 distinct and prominent signs of approaching total blindness. 

 Five to seven attacks, as a rule, completely destroys the 



