On the removal of foreign bodies from the eye : with four cases / by Charles Stedman Bull.

  • Bull, Charles Stedman, 1844-1912.
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[1880]
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Credit: On the removal of foreign bodies from the eye : with four cases / by Charles Stedman Bull. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE REMOVAL' OF~TOREIGN BODIES FROM THE EYE. WITH FOUR CASES* By CHARLES STEDMAN BULL, M. D. SURGEON AND PATHOLOGIST TO THE NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. In considering the subject of foreign bodies within the eye, we naturally make certain sub-divisions, with reference to the locality of the foreign body, to that part of the eye in which the particle lies or is embedded. This seems to be the point of greatest importance, both in regard to prognosis and to the steps to be undertaken for its removal. Though at one time in the history of ophthalmic surgery it was quite customary to attempt the removal of a foreign body ■from the eyeball, without much reference to its locality, yet there subsequently came a reaction which ran to as great an extreme in the other direction. During the past ten or twelve years the pendulum of surgical opinion has swung back on its path somewhat away from this last extreme, and we now operate and attempt to remove foreign bodies from the eye in many cases which a few years back we should not have touched. Though our statistics upon this class of cases are hardly sufficiently full as yet to admit of the for- mulation of a rule as to operating, yet there are certain points which already seem in a fair way to be settled. From the reports of cases it appears that where the pres- ence of a foreign body is suspected, though the particle itself is not seen, an attempt at probing for it, even when in the vitreous, may not do any harm and may almost be justifiable. When such a search has failed of any result, * Read before the State Medical Society at Albany February 3, 1880.