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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    primary eye, although it may be destroying its fellow, yet we are to preserve it, because, forsooth, it is possible that after the secondary eye is destroyed, the primary may have at least perception of light. One would have thought that such a proposition need only to be clearly stated to carry with it its own condemnation; nevertheless, as it is put forward by grave authority, it is necessary to allude to it. I am at a loss to understand why we are to keep an eye, often with very doubtful perception of light, when it may at some future time destroy its fellow, at this time perfectly sound. I say again, that if all useful sight be destroyed, either by accident or disease, in any eye, however quiet it may be, without doubt that eye should be removed, unless some general diathetic condition, such as Bright's disease, by threatening life, forbid it; but if I be right in de- ducing, from the facts above stated, that, in the treatment by enucleation and