A revival of interest in the medical and surgical treatment of Ménière's syndrome has been manifest during the past decade. Dandy,1modifying Frazier's original operation, Coleman and Lyerly,2Munro,3Horrax,4Crowe5and others have reported successful results following cerebellar exploration and division of the vestibular branch or division of the combined vestibular and cochlear branches of the eighth nerve. An alternative procedure is destruction of the labyrinth and the ganglions of Scarpa either through the middle ear6or through the roof of the petrous bone.7Equally satisfactory therapeutic results have been obtained by Mygind and Dederding,8Furstenberg, Lashmet and Lathrop,9Brown,10Foldes11and Cawthorne and Fawcett12with less drastic procedures. It is believed that none of these investigators nor any others have elucidated satisfactorily the etiology of the disease. Recently a report by Hallpike and Cairns13has