Wound of an eye by a missile from a crossgun. Enucleation for sympathetic iriitation. Remarkable lesion in the iris. Cyst-like collection of fluid / by David Webster.

  • Webster, David, 1842-1923.
Date:
[1883?]
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Credit: Wound of an eye by a missile from a crossgun. Enucleation for sympathetic iriitation. Remarkable lesion in the iris. Cyst-like collection of fluid / by David Webster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WOUND OF AN EYE BY A MISSILE FROM A CROSS¬ GUN ; ENUCLEATION FOR SYMPATHETIC IRRITA¬ TION ; REMARKABLE LESION IN THE IRIS ; CYST¬ LIKE COLLECTION OF FLUID. i By DAVID WEBSTER, M.D., New York. (With one Wood-cut.') Mrs. G. brought her son, twelve years of age, to Dr. C. R. Ag- new for advice on April 30, 1883. She gave the following his¬ tory : On the 6th of October, 1880, he and a schoolmate were shooting from a cross-gun together. Having broken their arrows they pulled ditch weeds,—“golden rod,”—which were dry, and used them instead. The boy’s playmate accidentally shot him in the eye with one of these missiles. The stick entered the cornea of the left eye. The sight was, as she believes, destroyed at once by the injury. His nervous system was so shocked that it was some weeks before he was able to be taken to New York for treatment. About the middle of November, 1880, he was taken to the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he was placed under ether, and an exploratory operation performed, as the mother understood, but none of the stick was found in the eye. Her family physician, who was present at the operation, informed her that the original wound was reopened, and the eye explored through it; also that “ they thought the blow had caused a sepa¬ ration of the retina, and a dislocation of the lens.” The inflam¬ matory reaction and pain following the operation passed off in about a month. For about two years thereafter, the blind eye was not troublesome, and was “ perfect ” in its external appearance. In October, 1882, his mother observed, while washing him, a small white spot in his pupil, and on watching this spot, she found that it gradually increased until it filled the whole pupil. No further change occurred until March, 1883, when the eye be¬ came red and painful without apparent cause, and the right eye began to sympathize, being painful on use, and sensitive to light. Although the blind eye is now free from redness, the right eye Reprinted from the Archives of Ophthalmology, Vol. xii, Nos. 3 and 4, September, 1883.