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We read with great interest the editorial by Dunaief et al in the January 2001 issue of the ARCHIVES, which discussed the epithelial genesis of most of the classical "stromal dystrophies" of the cornea, their ensuing reclassification, and new therapeutic approaches.¹ We were, however, astonished to find that our early paper dealing with the same question² is cited by the authors as supporting a fibroblastic origin of the stromal deposits. As a matter of fact, we were among the first, if not the first, who, after light-microscopic and electron-microscopic studies of early recurrent granular dystrophy, postulated an epithelial origin of the deposits in granular and also in lattice dystrophy. The last sentence of our summary reads, "The clinical pictures and microscopic findings strongly suggest that granular dystrophy may primarily be an epithelial not a stromal disease." This suggestion was at that time strongly opposed by most experts but was adopted . . . [Full Text of this Article]