Abstract
In 1897 Trousseau 1 reported three cases of sympathetic ophthalmia (two of his own and one of Kalt's) following the use of the galvanocautery in treating prolapse of the iris; and in the same year 2 I felt impelled by my own experience to second the warning given by Trousseau. Since then I have happened to notice the histories of seven cases of sympathetic ophthalmia in which the authors mentioned incidentally that a wound or an iris prolapse had been cauterized a suitable length of time before the outbreak of the disease in the second eye. These cases were reported by the following authors: Alexander, 3 Darier, 4 Alberti, 5 Dimmer, 6 and Fuchs, 7 who each report a case occurring after cauterization of an iris prolapse or a cystoid scar; and Cohn 8 mentions two cases from the clinic of Silex in which a wound was cauterized before the
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