Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Bader, Charles.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are in apposition with each other. Some of the purulent contents of the vitreous space may be seen projecting into a rent in the middle of the cornea. 6. The other half of the same eye. J. D., aged 60 (under the care of Mr. Poland, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), had the left eye struck, twelve days ago, hy a piece of wood ; vision, the next day, was reduced to per- ception of light; there was only slight pain. The eye was excised, December 28th, 1859. 7. The lateral half of the sclerotic and cornea of an enlarged eye, the interior of which is occupied by pus and lymph ( acute suppuration of the eyeball ). No choroid can be recognized. Portions of the muscles and orbital tissues are firmly adherent to the outer surface of the sclerotic. 8. The other half of the same specimen. From a hoy (under the care of Mr. Laurence, at the South London Ophthalmic Hospital) into whose eye a needle, mounted in a piece of cane, had been shot. When first seen by the surgeon, the eyeball was enormously protruding. An exploratory incision was made, and about two drachms of thick pus evacuated from the interior of the globe, together with what appeared to be the hyaloid membrane infiltrated with pus. After this, it was considered advisable to remove the globe. 9. A lateral and anterior portion of the tunics of a left eye, with a large rusty piece of brass imbedded in inflammatory products thrown out upon the inner surface of the choroid, and surrounded by brownish-grey and opaque, thickened, and detached shreds of retina. The choroid and sclerotic are in apposition, and much thickened by inflammatory changes. No particulars could be obtained of the history of this case. On examination when recent, the cornea was milky; the eye large; much of the orbital tissue adherent to the outer surface of the sclerotic, as is frequently observed in acute suppurations of the interior of the eye. The crystalline lens and vitreous substance were missing. A large rent existed at the margin of the cornea in the ciliary region. The cedematous and thickened sclerotic and choroid were in apposition. 10. A lateral portion of a left eye, showing, near the ciliary processes, a blackish piece of metal, surrounded by pus, lymph, and by yellow and opaque portions of retina. Neither the lens nor the vitreous was found. The brown choroid and the sclerotic are in apposition. b 2