A case report of 5703 cases of eye diseases seen and treated in private practice in Constantinople in 1877, 1878 & 1879 : and also a tabular analysis of 1118 cases treated at the Imperial Naval Hospital with eight chromos, and a woodcut / by Edwin van Millingen.

  • Van Milligan, Edwin.
Date:
[1880?]
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Credit: A case report of 5703 cases of eye diseases seen and treated in private practice in Constantinople in 1877, 1878 & 1879 : and also a tabular analysis of 1118 cases treated at the Imperial Naval Hospital with eight chromos, and a woodcut / by Edwin van Millingen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any additional treatment. Two months after the opera- tion left eye could count fingers at 11 m. and the medii were very clear. A year later he resumed his work and could read notes. The excised eye was found to contain large ossifications, which, through the shrivelling up of the eye had come into close contact with the ciliary body. Cicatricial bands of newly formed connective tissue con- nected the ciliary body to the osseous deposits. Case II.— Levi aged 45. Left eye, reduced by atrophy to a stump; a glass eye has been worn over it for seven years. The stump is sensitive to the con- tact of the glass eye and has been so for upwards of one month. Vision of right eye, which was reduced to J by adherent leucoma, for which an artificial pupil had been made 15 years ago, commenced to fail since a fortnight, and is so much reduced that patient cannot guide himself about the room, and can hardly count fingers. In- tense photophobia. Aqueous humour very turbid, and con- siderable ciliary injection around cornea. I excised the left eye. The restoration of the vision of right eye com- menced the day after operation, and went on progressi- vely until no difference remained from his former condi- tion. The left eye contained ossifications, which had come in contact with the ciliary body through the extreme flattening of the eye. In both these cases the sympathetic disease was not of a plastic character, but from the rapid ameliora- tion which followed excision, I have not the slightest shadow of doubt that the iritis of the second eye in each case was brought on by the disease of the atro- phied globe on the other side. Two cases of melano-sarcoma of choroid came un- der my notice. I operated upon both during the glaucoma- tous stage. The first case was that of a stout woman aged 40. She is still living (five years after the operation) and has enjoyed good health ever since. For about one month after the operation she complained of violent ciliary neu- ralgia similar to that previous to the excision of the eye. and during the stage of acute glaucoma.