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The author has seen 101 intraocular foreign body injuries in ninety-eight individuals among 15,000 eye patients in the last twenty-five years. He discusses the location and type of the foreign bodies, and the diagnosis, treatment and results of these cases. Read before the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, March 12, 1930.

A horizontal incision is made in the conjunctiva five millimeters above the limbus; and the conjunctiva is loosened downward to the limbus and in a pocket on either side so as to expose the upper two fifths of the limbus. A double suture is inserted and the loops laid aside. While making puncture and counterpuncture at the limbus, the conjunctival flap is first grasped on the side corresponding to the puncture, and then on the opposite side. In spite of some increase of difficulty in making the incision, and a tendency for blood to be retained in the anterior chamber, iris or vitreous prolapse is prevented, convalescence is shortened, and in the author's series of cases excellent results have been obtained. Read before the Hennepin County Medical Society, February 6, 1928.

Two fragments had been indicated by the x-ray plates, but a second application of the magnet failed to withdraw a second fragment. A new set of x-ray plates confirmed the previous record, and after a new incision approximately placed the magnet withdrew the second fragment.