Causes of blindness in India : treatment and cure, &c / by G.C. Hall.

  • Hall, Geoffry C.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Causes of blindness in India : treatment and cure, &c / by G.C. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    times during the operation. Some men say they like to lose a little vitreous, but I can’t see the advantage of it, except in sometimes washing away small pieces of soft matter which may have been left behind. Mr. Macnamara told me that he always likes to break into the viti’eous, and used to scatch it with a pricker, so as to get a good black appearance behind the pupil. Bad results very seldom follow loss of vitreous, except when in large quantity, though I think detachment of the retina might result from the sudden withdrawal of the natural support it must give this structure, also from the eye having a tendency to collapse. The field of \dsion is also liable to be contracted. I must refer the reader to the appendix for more on glaucoma, and will now proceed to the last struc- ture in this division—namely, the Retina. This being the sensory portion of the eye and very delicate in structure prepares us at once for the fact that it is not by operations of any kind that we can hope to do good, except in one