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Inman has previously reported on periodicity and in this paper takes up the subject again briefly in the same delightfully artistic and yet careful manner of his previous communications. Here he tells us that the English holiday known as Guy Fawkes Day celebrates by fireworks the anniversary of an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Guy Fawkes was the ringleader of the conspirators.
One of Inman's patients sustained an attack of glaucoma on this particular holiday and was operated upon. Inman says of this man, 'Whilst murderous methods were abhorrent to his Christian character, nevertheless I think that on 5 November, as he dwelt upon the sacrilegious attempt to interfere with the Church's ancient privileges, he unconsciously saw eye-to-eye with the man (Guy Fawkes) who long ago had dared so much'. The second patient suffered from a spontaneous subconjunctival hemorrhage (innocuous, though extensive) on the same holiday. It was also the birthday of the patient. The hemorrhage occurred while he was cutting down and gathering wood from a tree that had been his deceased mother's favorite fruit tree (a damson). The author tells these two stories and supplies sufficient, though brief, detail to throw considerable doubt upon the possibility of coincidence. He implies that in the first