A treatise on the diseases of the eye / by W. Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, William, Sir, 1783-1867.
Date:
1854
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye / by W. Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Various species of cataract; the len- ticular ...... 676 Morgagnian cataract . . . 679 Capsular cataract .... 679 Capsulo-lenticular cataract . . 681 Varieties of colour .... 682 Varieties in consistence . . . 683 Mature and immature; complications 683 Adhesions of the pupil . . . 684 Glaucoma ..... 684 Amaurosis 684 Varieties dependent on age . . 685 Causes 685 [Pathology of cataract] . . . 686 [Congenital cataract] . . . 686 [Cataract of advancing age] . . 687 [Traumatic and inflammatory cata- ract] 692 Treatment 693 Prognosis ...... 694 Time for operating .... 695 [Propriety of operating -when one eye only is affected] .... 696 Operations ..... 698 Preparation of the patient . . 698 [Importance of preparatory and after treatment] ..... 699 Various operations .... 701 SECTION II. Extraction of the cataract . . 701 Questions of operating on both eyes at the same time .... 702 Instruments; various knives . . 702 Position of the patient . . . 704 Fixing the eye ..... 705 Division of the cornea . . . 705 Superior section .... 706 Division of the capsule and removal of the lens 709 Escape of vitreous humour . . 710 Superior section of cornea on left eye 711 Exterior and inferior section . .711 Inferior section . . . .712 Operation of exti-action without assistant 713 Treatment after the operation . PAGE 713 Inflammation .... 715 Prolapsus iridis . . 716 Cases fit or unfit for extraction . 717 SECTION III. Depressing or couching 718 Reclination .... 719 Scarpa's mode of depression 720 After treatment 720 Absorption of the depressed lens 721 [Objections to this method] 723 SECTION IV. The operation by solution or absorption 724 [Additional remarks on operation by absorption] ..... 725 Whether the lens is removed by ab- sorption or solution . . . 728 Danger from the passage of a hard lens or hard fragments into the an- terior chamber .... 729 Capsule not absorbed . . . 729 Keratonyxis ..... 730 [Jacob's needle and mode of operating with] 731 Operation when the capsule is opaque, and the pupil adherent . . . 733 [Operation by suction] . . . 733 SECTION V. Congenital cataract; its nature . . 734 Whether really congenital . . . 735 Affecting several members of the same family ...... 73G [Diagnosis] 736 Operation on infants . . . 737 Operation on opaque capsule . . 738 Various proceedings .... 738 Anterior operation on the infant . 739 Posterior 739 Proper age for the operation . . 740 Secondary cataract .... 741 [Methods of operating for] . . 741 CHAPTER XXII. GENERAL AFFECTIONS OF THE GLOBE. SECTION I. Inflammation of the globe . . . 744 Symptoms ..... 744 Effects 746 Diagnosis . . . . .746 Treatment 747 Ophthalmitis arthritica . . . 747 SECTION II. Inflammation and destructive Buppura- ti'in of the eye, as a secondary effect of phlebitis 747 [Additional remarks] . . . 750 SECTION III. Sympathetic ophthalmia . [Additional remarks] SECTION IV. Hydrophthalmia . SECTION V. Atrophy of the eye .... Collapse of the globe from suppuration SECTION VI. Exophthalmia 753 754 757 758 769 759