This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...point. By what agency this movement of the lens was accomplished, it is difficult to imagine, except that the constant motion of the lids upon the eye, and of the eye against the lids, may have caused it to be gently pressed onwards through the loose cellular tissue beneath the conjunctiva in which it was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...point. By what agency this movement of the lens was accomplished, it is difficult to imagine, except that the constant motion of the lids upon the eye, and of the eye against the lids, may have caused it to be gently pressed onwards through the loose cellular tissue beneath the conjunctiva in which it was lying. This case is also an instance of very useful sight remaining after so severe an injury as rupture of the globe from a blow, complicated as it was by a dislocation of the lens. Case XLI.--Dislocation of the lens beneath the conjundirn through a rupture of the sclerotic, . Caroline C., aet. 53, came under my care on Feb. 13. 1866. She had received the following injury seven weeks previously. Whilst engaged at her usual household work Fm. 54. she struck the right eye with the handle of a fire shove). The eye was at once blinded, and for some days she suffered severe pain; but this had passed off, and the eye was quiet, at the time of her application to the Hospital. Present state, --The eye presents a very extraordinary appearance. At the outer side of the cornea is the cicatrix of a wound of the sclerotic through which a large portion of iris had evidently been prolapsed; for a large piece of about one-sixth of its circumferential portion was wanting, and the eye looked as if an iridectomy had been performed. On the other side of the cornea (the lower and inner), and almost directly opposite the rent in the sclerotic, was a prominent tumour of the conjunctiva, of about the size and appearance represented in the diagram; and in a line extending; from the lower edge of the cicatrix to this swelling the conjunctiva was discoloured from recent ecchymosis. The tumour was evidently the lens which had been shot out of the eye at the time of the.
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Add this copy of Injuries of the Eye, Orbit, and Eyelids: Their to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Old New York Book Shop rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1867 by Henry C Lea.
