The removal of the right cerebral hemisphere is a procedure that seldom is indicated. From the surgical standpoint, its use is restricted to those cases of infiltrating glioma involving the midportion of the hemisphere in which it would appear that this procedure and none other could be effectual in removing the entire growth. From the humanitarian standpoint, it should be offered only to those patients desirous of living under the resultant adverse circumstances, which should also be carefully explained to the relatives. Dandy,1in 1928, indicated the feasibility of this procedure and reported five cases. Of this series, the first patient lived three and one-half years but died of recurrence of the growth; the second patient died within three months from recurrence; the third died of hemorrhage forty-eight hours after the operation; the fourth died two weeks after the operation from pneumonia, while the fifth was living two months