Sclero-corneal trephining in the operative treatment of glaucoma / by Robert Henry Elliot.

  • Elliot, Robert Henry, 1864-1936.
Date:
1914
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    Chapter II. HISTORICAL. The History of Trephining in the Surgical Treatment of Glaucoma is of sufficient interest to justify a chapter being devoted to it. Fortunately this side of the question has recently been very fully and ably dealt with by Mr. Sydney Stephenson and by Dr. Arthur J. Ballantyne in the pages of The Ophthalmoscope. No apology is needed for reproducing these articles at length, but the author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to both these writers for the permission to thus, make use of their work. THE TREPHINE IN THE TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA. BY Sydney Stephenson,'' LONDON, ENGLAND. The use of the trephine in the surgical treatment of glaucoma, has recently been advocated by Dr. Freeland Fergus' and Major R. H. Elliot'- respectively. The method, however, is by no means new, although the precise application of the method may perhaps be so. Writing thirty-four years ago, the late Dr. D. Argyll Robertson^ described what he called A New Operation for Glaucoma. He drilled a hole, about l/12th of an inch in diameter, through the upper part of the sclera at or about the junction of the ciliary processes with the choroid. In his last two cases Robertson turned up a flap of conjunctiva with a