The results vary enormously, and massage for diffuse parenchymatous keratitis is only applicable after the acute stage is past.

Acute Phlyctenular Keratitis has for a long time been treated by massage by German and French doctors (e.g., by de Wecker and by Thea). Kiaer has a small but careful comparison of seventeen cases, seven of which were massaged without any ointment and ten with precipitate ointment (1 : 40). In these cases also it is, according to Kiaer, best to use precipitate ointment; the subjective symptoms disappear after very few treatments, the phlyctenules are quickly absorbed, and Kiaer considers he has discovered a method of treatment which hinders ulceration and prevents permanent opacity of the cornea. It seems as if massage with precipitate ointment should be an improvement on the usual, fairly good treatment with calomel powder (with which many doctors not only powder the eye, but also massage it). General treatment must, of course, never be omitted.

When the symptoms of irritation are very prominent (injection, pain, photophobia, lacrimation), massage is not easily performed, and for my part I consider for this reason that it is better in these cases to let a day or two pass (according to Schmidt-Rimpler's advice) before beginning massage, and meanwhile use frequent boracic acid compresses and dilate the pupil with atropin.

Keratitis punctata superficialis (Stellwag, Fuchs) is included by Klein among the diseases of the eye which may be treated by massage.

Scar keratitis has been most advantageously treated with massage by Schenkl.

Superficial traumatic keratitis has been treated by Kiaer with massage (very gently), using vaseline with good results, the pains, photophobia, etc., subsiding very quickly and the whole process of repair lasting only two or three days.