The patient had been taking various preparations of potassium, and it was thought that his blood contained a deficiency of fibrin.

Upon removal of the nasal plugs a catarrhal inflammation developed which lasted a long time and was attended with considerable purulent discharge." Late Restoration of Sight .-- There are some marvelous cases on record in which, after many years of blindness, the surgeon has been able, by operation, to restore the sight.

McKeown gives the history of a blind fiddler of sixty-three, who, when one and a half years old, had lost the sight of both eyes after an attack of small-pox.

Iridectomy was performed, and after over sixty years of total blindness his sight was restored; color-perception was good.

Berncastle mentions a case of extraction of double cataract and double iridectomy for occluded pupils, which, after thirty years of blindness, resulted in the recovery of good sight.