[The meteorological influence on cases of acute glaucoma in French-speaking Switzerland in the years 1971-1976 (author's transl)].

The authors present a meteorological study of 45 cases of acute closed-angle glacuoma. Frontal type weather, especially that associated with an invasion of maritime air from the north-west following the passage of a cold front appears able to trigger off an attack in an anatomically predisposed subject.