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134 EUPHAN MAXWELL threads which had resisted proteolysis better than the spongy iris tissue, each contained a blood vessel whose lumen was filled with red blood corpuscles. Summary A further case of iridoschisis is described. Pathological investi- gation of the iris has added nothing to our previous knowledge. It is suggested that a blunt trauma forced the aqueous into the spongy iris tissue where the contained proteolytic enzymes destroyed the stroma, The pigment thus liberated blocked the drainage channels with production of secondary glaucoma. A CROSS-SECTIONAL VIEW OF INJURIES IN AN OPHTHALMIC PRACTICE IN EIRE* BY EUPHAN MAXWELL DUBLIN TrHE injuries recorded in this paper were serious in themselves or in their sequelae. In order to emphasise certain aspects of the subject as a whole, a few trivial injuries have been included, but apart from this, as the title serves to explain, there has been no selection of cases. The records in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, have been preserved since 1904, the year in which the Hospital commenced to function. It is from such of these as deal with the patients treated in that department with which I lhave been connected directly or indirectly, and during certain years chosen at random, that my data have been collected. The years in question were 1904-5; 1914-15; .1924-25; and 1939-45; all inclusive. I have also included case histories from my private records together with such as were still available from those of my father. As many of the injuries antedated the case-histories by intervals of time varying from days to years, the period under review has been found to extend over three-quarters of a century.