Ten Years of Operative Surgery in the Provinces - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862. Excerpt: ... made a lower section in the left eye, but owing to the toughness of the capsule could not break it with the curette. The lens was extracted with much difficulty, and he went home with but little sight, returning in the course of a year with the vision improved but the pupil excessively minute. I touched it across with the iris knife, and a central, black, and tolerably circular pupil suddenly appeared and he saw well. Case Ccxlviii. M., aged 72, had undergone extraction and the formation of artificial pupil on the right eye in London without any success. I operated on the left eye, and he recovered with excellent sight. He had dull pains round his brow during his recovery, and I blistered him freely, and when he was quite well his pupil was small and irregular, and I believe that iritis had been going on, and that seems to have been the disease which had destroyed the sight in the other eye. He sees well to the present day, more than three years after the operation. Case Ccxlix. M., aged 57. The cataract in the left eye was deeply seated, and had been coming on four years. The right eye was blind from closed pupil and old internal inflammation. I operated on the left, and he recovered speedily, but had very imperfect sight, for opaque capsule obstructed the pupil. I tried to remove it with the cannula forceps, but in vain, and two weeks afterwards I broke the capsule across with a needle through the sclerotic, and he went home with a circular pupil and good sight. Case Ccl. M., aged 58. I extracted the lens of the left eye, and he recovered with improved vision, but a portion of opaque matter remained in the pupil; this was removed, and he went home with good sight. Case Ccli. M., aged 59. I operated on the right eye, and made the upper section, and when ...