TENSION TOLERANCE: CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS

It has been customary in the past for your chairman to discuss some one of the economic problems confronting our specialty or to present some scientific fact or observation. However, I have chosen to present for your consideration one phase of the glaucoma problem that is known but not adequately recognized; namely, the critical point in intra-ocular hypertension. In view of the ever increasing blindness from glaucoma, it behooves us to exercise even more than usual care and caution in dealing with that disease. In a limited number of cases of compensated glaucoma, normal function of the eye may be preserved almost indefinitely without recourse to surgical intervention, and in other cases the use of surgical measures may be deferred many years before lack of control becomes evident. It goes without saying that, in an intelligent self-disciplined person, management of the disease without surgical procedure is preferable, provided the integrity