Surgical cases / by John Campbell.

  • Campbell, John, 1784-1867.
Date:
[1832]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Surgical cases / by John Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tant from each other, where they collect in globules and then trickle down the cheek. At the inner canthus, a little clear fluid is sometimes seen resting upon the surface, which it is con- jectured may come from the lacrymal sac, if this be not vet obli- terated. (See Plate II. Fig. 2.) The patient suffers neither pain nor inconvenience from the exposed state of the eye. The ulcers on the genitals having been in a chronic and in- dolent state, showed little disposition to take on a healthy action; but by putting the patient on a generous diet, and administer- ing nitric acid internally, together with the local application of lunar caustic, followed by solutions of the sulphate of copper and sulphate of zinc to the sores, these were brought into a heal- ing state, and they are now nearly cicatrized. In cases of carcinomatous affections of the eyelids requiring their removal, surgeons have directed that the eyeball should be extirpated at the same time, in order to save the patient from that extreme degree of suffering supposed to arise from constant exposure of the eyeball; but the present case shows that this state of irritation is not an invariable result of such exposure, since the patient, as already stated, experiences neither pain nor uneasiness at present, nor is he likely to do so in future, as the parts are becoming covered and protected by the formation of a new cuticle over the surface which has been left exposed by the loss of the eyelids. 4 i i Printed by John Stark, Edinburgh,