MIMICAL ECTROPION OF UPPER LIDS.

S. HOLTH. Oslo..)

BY

I had as schoolboy the opportunity to make the following observation almost daily in the course of a year.

One of my class fellows - 14 years old -, to our great ads miration, could master more facial muscles than commonly falls in the lot of mankind.

He could frequently distract the amiable Latin teacher and us from our progress in >>De bello Gallicocc with every kind of mimical performances - but also make isolated motion of the external ears forwards and backwards.

His favourite feat was however a sudden compleat eversion of both upper lids, without any help of fingers; I never saw him make the trick monolaterally. It did not cost him any effort to evert the lids in a moment, keep them everted for any lenght of time - and then suddenly, with a wink, repose them. I have never seen anything similar since then; and for many years searched for it in different magazines and handbooks - but in vain.

If colleagues have seen such a mimical eversion and re5 position of the upper lids, I hope they will publish it in nActa Ophthalmologicacc.

*) Received April 6th 1936.