Selected cases of injury of the eyes / Henry Power.

  • Meneses, Henry Power.
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[1880]
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Credit: Selected cases of injury of the eyes / Henry Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    January 19.—Excision of left eyeball. Henry Porter, 42, labourer, from Essex, on December 22 out partridge shooting ; a shot entered his left eye from a person who wiis on the other side of hedge on lower ground, and at least 100 yards off him ; he was in the act of turning to the left, the shot coming from the right. His eye was in great pain at the time, ran with fluid which, from his own description, appears to have been vitreous; has beeui unable to see since. For last week has had pain, lachrymation, and photophobia in right eye. January 16.—Left eye. Conjunctiva congested. There is on sclerotic a deep furrowed cicatrix running from cornea to inner canthus, on a level with lower margin of pupil. Sclerotic is. slightly injected. Iris muddy, striee indistinct, bulging very much forward, and in contact with cornea but not adherent. Cor/iea clear. Fupil immovable, irregularly tied to lens by numerous adhesious^ Lying behind lower margin of pupil there seems to be a small round opaque body. Lens margins opaque, centre much clearer. Fundus can be illuminated, on inner side is a yellowish opaque substance with retinal vessels running over it. L.v. = perception of light. T-2. Eyeball diminished in size, square and pointed. Eight eye slight injection of vessels. Pupil clear ; acts well ; no pain. E.v.=:(Can tell time by watch at 12 inches) ^oV—12- gives -fg. Media clear. A large myopic crescent around E. disc, most marked at upper and outer border. Though the symptoms of sympathetic irritation were here very slight, it was considered expedient to remove the injured eye, which was accordingly ex- cised on January 19. January 21.—Circum-corneal zone still present in right eye. January 24-30.—^Attack of cynanche tonsillaris. February 1.—Went out. Right eye safe. Left eye wound healed. Description of left globe removed, January 19, Eyeball soft, misshapen. Distinct equatorial bulging at lower part. On section, retina detached completely; space between it and choroid full of greenish yellow fluid. Lens clear, adherent to iris. Behind and below lens was a mass of opaque lymph, in centre of .which was a No. 6 shot. Case IV.—Incision in Cornea—Traumatic Cataract—Foreign body in Lens—Removed of Lens—Recovery. James Perry, aged 46, engineer. November 21, 1873.—The patient was admitted about 7 p.m. with an injury to the right eye from a piece of iron. An hour previously he was working at the anvil, when a small