Injuries of the eye : and their medico-legal aspect / by Ferdinand von Arlt ; tr. by Chas. S. Turnbull.

  • Arlt, Carl Ferdinand von, 1812-1887.
Date:
1878
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    examination of the acuteness of the field of vision, but also the use of the ophthalmoscope. Any description of the latter, however practical and thorough, would be perfectly useless unless accom- panied by actual manipulation with the instrument itself. In case a physician, called upon to deliver his opinion as an expert, should not possess the above-mentioned requirements, I can only advise him to transfer the case into the hands of some colleague to whom they are more familiar. With- out an accurate registration of the various ap- pearances in the injured eye, the delivery of a correct medico-legal opinion becomes an impossi- bility. Medico-legal opinions, however, are by no means rare, even at the present day, in which even the existing degree of vision and its changes are passed over in silence. Should I be able to con- tribute in some degree to rendering the occurrence of such Opprobria artis et scientise medical im- possible for the future, I shall consider the object of this little work accomplished. I have found it convenient to divide all the injuries of the eye into three groups, viz.:— I. Injuries produced by sudden compression or concussion of the eye. II. Injuries produced by the entrance of a for- eign body not acting chemically. In cases of this kind the foreign body may be either lodged in the eye or to either side or even behind it, or it may not remain at all. The coincident injury of the