Th\l=e'\se de Paris) is quoted as treating this annoying and at times intractable affection by forcible dilatation, using a pair of retractors or a spring speculum\p=m-\the separation of the lids being carried to a degree of exposing the conjunctival culde-sac\p=m-\and keeping the eyelids in this position for three or four minutes. For several years I have been using a similar method in my clinic at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary\p=m-\with the difference that I do not forcibly put the orbicularis palpebrarum on the stretch. The good re-