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spicuous with the passage of time, even though objective measurement shows no de­crease in the actual degree of protrusion.

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5:51, 1944.

O B I T U A R I E S

CECIL HOPKINS BAGLEY (1893-1961)

Dr. Cecil Hopkins Bagley died suddenly in his home in Baltimore on April 13, 1961. He was born in Bagley, a small community in the vicinity of Belair, Maryland, on Aug­ust 17, 1893. He was the son of Charles, Sr., and Ella (McCauley) Bagley. His father was a prominent physician in Harford County and his brother, a noted brain sur­geon, was for many years head of the De­partment of Neurosurgery at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Bagley received an A.B. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1917, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medi­cine in 1921. Following his graduation from medical school, he had four years of resi­dency training in the Department of Sur­gery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. During this period of training he served under Dr. William Halstead and Dr. John M. T. Fin-ney in general surgery. He also worked with Dr. Walter Dandy in neurosurgery and Dr. Staige Davis in plastic surgery.

In 1925 when Dr. William H. Wilmer came to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he ex­pressed a desire to have as his first resident someone who was thoroughly trained in gen­eral surgery. For this reason he selected Dr. Cecil Bagley, who was then a resident on the surgical house staff, to be his first resi­dent in the Wilmer Ophthalmological Insti­tute.

After the completion of his residency, Dr. Bagley entered the private practice of oph­thalmology in Baltimore. He rapidly acquired a large following of interesting patients. During his many years of practice and teach­ing of ophthalmology, Dr. Bagley developed many devoted and loyal friends who appre­ciated his kindness and greatly mourn his sudden passing.

A. E. Maumenee.

ARTHUR M. CULLER (1899-1960)

Arthur M. Culler was born in Mt. Morris, Illinois, December 10, 1899, the son of David and Mina Hoover Culler. In 1920 he received his A.B. from Mt. Morris College, where his father was professor of ethics. His M.D. was obtained at the University of Michigan in 1926. He interned at the Uni­versity Hospital, Ann Arbor, in 1926-27 and was a resident in ophthalmology there from 1927-30. At this time he became a clinical assistant and then instructor in ophthalmol­ogy in the university, during which period he was the John E. Weeks fellow in oph­thalmology and prepared his first paper on "Anatomical studies of the retina."

He then entered private practice in Day­ton, Ohio, where he met and married Mary Swartsel. During this period he found time to do research work with the Kettering Foundation on the physiology of the eye, particularly on the effects of fever therapy. At this time too, he enlisted in the Dayton U. S. Naval Reserve Unit, which was among the first to be called to active service after Pearl Harbor. After a briefing period at San Diego, his hospital unit was dispatched to Efate, New Hebrides, in March, 1942, when these islands were approximately the only important group in the South Pacific not yet overrun by the Japanese. In 1944 he was transferred to Portsmouth, Virginia, as chief of ophthalmology. He retired from ac­tive service in the Navy with the rank of

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Captain in 1946 but continued as consultant in ophthalmology to the Surgeon General, U. S. Navy, until his illness.

Following the death of Dr. Albert Frost in the fall of 1945, Dr. Culler was asked to come to The Ohio State University as pro­fessor of ophthalmology and chairman of the department, a duty which he assumed upon his retirement from the Navy. During this period he published some 20 papers, all im­portant contributions to ophthalmolgy. Some were the result of pure research in his early years, the majority on clinical subjects en­countered in private practice. His general medical services included membership on the A.M.A. Committee for Industrial Eye Effi­ciency, 1939-47, and chairman of the Na­tional Interprofessional Committee on Eye Care. In addition to the American Ophthal-mological Society, he was also a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, which he served many years as an instructor in the instructional program and participated in the formal pro­gram discussions and symposia. He was also

a member of the American Medical Associa­tion, the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for Research in Oph­thalmology, the Columbus Medical Academy, and the Columbus Ophthalmology and Oto­laryngology Society.

Ralph O. Rychener.

CORRESPONDENCE INTRA-TENON CAPSULE

INJECTION Editor, American Journal of Ophthalmology:

The therapy of central serous retinopathy has been most unsatisfactory and many dif­ferent agents are used. These include vaso­dilators, barbiturates, vitamins, intravenous typhoids, and microwave therapy, to men­tion only a few. Due to the fact that our knowledge is so fragmentary, or really lack­ing as to the etiology, this is understandable.

I wish to report to you the following case in which a new therapy was used. I trust you will publish this and that other ophthal­mologists will treat cases of central serous retinopathy in a similar fashion so that a series of cases can be collected for statistical analysis. The average ophthalmologist sees two or three cases a year and, from his own personal experience, he probably would not have an adequate series from which to draw a conclusion. I would be most happy if those who undertake such treatment would report to me the individual cases so treated and at a later date I would report the results to you as the editor of T H E AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. In this way, it is hoped that a large enough series will be collected to prove or disprove the value of such ther­apy. In reporting this, I realize totally and completely that one case proves absolutely nothing and that spontaneous recovery oc­curs with any form of treatment, as well as with no treatment. This may be true in this one case.

On November 2, 1960, J.W.C., a white man,