The removal of the pin was followed by fissure of the hard palate, which, however, was relieved by operation.

The following is an extract of a report by Wenyon of Fatshan, South China:-- "Tang Shan, Chinese farmer, thirty-one years of age, was injured in the face by the bursting of a shot-gun.

After being for upward of two months under the treatment of native practitioners, he came to me on December 4, 1891.

I observed a cicatrix on the right side of his nose, and above this a sinus, still unhealed, the orifice of which involved the inner canthus of the right eye, and extended downward and inward for about a centimeter.

The sight of the right eye was entirely lost, and the anterior surface of the globe was so uniformly red that the cornea could hardly be distinguished from the surrounding conjunctiva.
There was no perceptible enlargement or protrusion of the eyeball, and it did not appear to have sustained any mechanical injury or loss of tissue.