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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    ■Case VII,— Wound of Eye loith Chij) of Metal in 1863—Sym- patJietic Irritation Nine Years afterwards—Enudeaiion —Recovery of Eye sympathetically irritated. Prederiek Gibson, aged 27.—In 1863 the patient was cutting an iron plate in the dockyard, when a small piece flew off and pene- trated the inner side of the right eye. The eye quieted down after a time, and became squared and atrophied, but vision was totally lost. He was admitted into the Hospital on September 3, 1872, with sympathetic irritation of the left eye. The injured eye was removed with some difficulty, owing to its being atrophied. On examination of the eye, a piece of iron about the size of a pea was found embedded in pigmentary substance resembling the choroid. It was lying over the position of the optic disc, the outline of which was totally lost from effusion of lymph. The sympathetically-irritated eye was materially relieved by the opera- tion, vision being almost normal. Case Ylll.—Wound of Eye ivith CJiip of Metal, March 1874 —Protrusion of Iris—Traumatic Cataract—After Ten Weeks, sympathetic Irritation of opposite Eye—Enucleation —Serious Impairment of sympatlietically-inflamed Eye. Edward Willey, aged 24—On the 20th Marcli 1874 the patient was struck by a piece of iron from a rivet in the left €ye, causing a clean and straight wound of the upper part of the cornea, cutting off a portion of the iris, and forming an accidental iridectomy. The eye became hard, painful, with a generally dull and congested aspect—in fact, glaucomatous— and • an iridectomy was performed on March 23. The lens was also removed, and found to be softer, and pus welled up from behind the iris, some parts of which were adherent to the cornea. After this the eye gradually quieted down, and he could •see the hand before the eye at ten inches. He was discharged from the Hospital on May 2d, but was readmitted on June 3d with sympathetic ophthalmia of the right eye. The left eyeball was immediately excised, the eye was examined, and lying on the fundus was found a piece of steel about five-eighths of an inch long and one line in thickness. The eye gradually became quiet, and he was discharged from the Hospital on August 12th, vision being