Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill.

  • Tosswill, Louis Henry.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Ectropion : a case of ectropion successfully treated by transplantation of skin from the arm / by Louis H. Tosswill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C. W., a boy aged 10, was severely burnt about the head and face several years before he came under my care, the result being an amount of disfigurement which exceeded any- thing that I remembered to have seen before. The whole of the left side of the face and forehead presented one uniform surface of dull, white cicatricial tissue, the outer two-thirds of the left upper lid was much everted, and the palpebral conjunctiva was in consequence much exposed, even when the boy looked straight in front of him. The edge of the upper lid was dragged up close to the margin of the brow, against which the lashes rested, with their points directed upwards; and when the boy attempted to close his eye, or to look downwards, the eversion became still more marked, little or nothing of the lid being seen, except its conjunctival sur- face. There was considerable corneitis with opacity present in the left eye, due in part probably to the eyeball remaining uncovered during sleep, so that he appeared to be stai'ing at any one standing by his bedside. The position of the edge of the left lower