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He was also suffering from attacks of iritis in both eyes, and had undergone a painful surgery, without effective anesthesia, whereby his cornea was sliced and a small piece of iris extracted.

The severe affections of the eye described by continental writers—blennorrhoea, keratitis, iritis, etc.—are certainly very rare in this country as complications of measles.

In this stage iritis is liable to occur, and if it is not properly diagnosed and treated it will result in blindness.

The sores both on cheek and tongue assumed more and more a gangrenous appearance, and on the sixteenth day from the commencement of iritis there was considerable loss of substance in both these situations.

It may be complicated by deeper inflammations of the eye such as iritis and cyclitis.