Essays in ophthalmology / by George Edward Walker.

  • Walker, George Edward.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Essays in ophthalmology / by George Edward Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and she can note the passage of fingers before her eye. In a bright hght, she can count the panes in a window, and, in short, there is useful sight in the eye. I am by no means devoid of hope that she will see still better than this, though this is something to be proud of. A striking instance of the unwisdom of leaving a seemingly quiet wasted eye in its orbit is afforded by a pupil at present in the Liverpool Blind School. He is a man aged 37, and he states that when 22 years old he received an injury in the left eye which totally destroyed the sight. Not till nine years afterwards did the secondary become affected, but after that time acute Sympathetic Ophthalmia set in, and speedily extinguished all sight, in spite of enucleation of the primary. The consideration of these cases seems to me to shew that the teaching which we have been receiving from Germany of late years is by no means right. We are told that if there be any sight at all in the