Abstract
I have been using holocain for some months and have recorded here fifty cases where it was recently employed in the eye clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Seventeen of these cases were foreign bodies in the cornea, and the average time employed to produce anesthesia was a little less than two minutes. In three cases iridectomy was performed and in four cases cataract extraction. Here I made the same number of instillations as I do when employing cocain, that is three in fifteen minutes, and all that can be said is that I noticed no difference in the anesthesia from that produced by cocain, and the same may be said of eight tenotomies. The other cases were where the holocain was used after the application of silver nitrate, after the passing of probes, in operations for tarsal cysts and pterygia. With the exception of the tarsal cysts the anesthesia
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