In 1954 a review of the subject of dorsal sympathectomy in labyrinthine disease was promised by the late Leighton F. Johnson, M. D.,1 but because of his untimely death this was not possible for him. The cases which he treated have been followed, and to their number others, who were treated in like manner, have been added. A review of the results is now possible. The champion of this form of treatment of Ménière's disease and allied conditions was Passe; the final summary of Passe's work,2 which was published posthumously, showed that he obtained an approximately 60% favorable response to this type of treatment. In 1954 Lewis3 reported his results in 17 cases of Ménière's disease subject to incapacitating attacks of vertigo. In 7 of the 17 cases he obtained satisfactory control of the attacks. The remaining 10 cases were either failures or received insufficient benefit from