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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    CHAPTER XXIII. MALIGNANT DISEASES OF THE EYE. SECTION I. Fungous growths not malignant SECTION II. Carcinoma of the eye Causes ...... Treatment ..... [Propriety of extirpation] SECTION III. Fungus htematodes of the eye . Symptoms and progress Seat and nature of the disease . Diagnosis; cancer and melanosis ; age of the patient .... Effusion of lymph after injuries Effusion of pus from internal inflam- mation . . . Change of structure in the vitreous humour ..... PAGE 760 764 767 767 769 769 772 777 778 779 779 Yellow appearance in the pupil of doubtful seat and nature . . 779 Treatment; question of extirpation . 781 Cases of supposed success . . 781 Proposal of evacuating the globe at an early period .... 783 Objections ... . . . 783 Use of mercury . . . . 785 Cases of fungus hsematodes . . 786 SECTION IV. Melanosis of the eye . ' . . 793 Cases 795 [Question of extirpation] . . . 806 [Melanotic deposit beneath the con- junctiva] 810 SECTION V. Extirpation of the eye [Bonnet's method] 813 814 CHAPTER XXIV. OSSIFICATIONS ) CALCULOUS CONCRETIONS ) ENTOZOA IN THE EYE. SECTION I. Ossification of various parts of the eye ...... 815 SECTION II. Calculous concretions . . .817 SECTION III. Entozoa in the eyes of man and other vertebralia . . . . .818 Filaria in the aqueous humour . . 818 Filaria under the conjunctiva and in the lens 819 Filaria and monostoma in the lens . 820 Distoma in lens .... 820 Cysticercus in the anterior cham- ber 820 Cysticercus in the subconjunctival tissue ...... 823 CHAPTER XXV. AFFECTIONS OF THE ORBIT. SECTION I. Injuries ...... 824 Penetrating wounds .... 824 [Wound of the orbit; rupture of the optic nerve] ..... 824 Protrusion of the globe . . . 826 SECTION II. Acute inflammation and suppuration of the orbital cellular texture . 826 Treatment 827 [Cases] 828 SECTION III. Chronic abscess in the orbit . . 831 Propagation of inflammation to the contents of the cranium SECTION IV. Protrusion of the globe from changes of obscure nature [ from anaemia] . SECTION V. Induration of the orbital cellular tex- ture ...... SECTION VI. Tumours in the orbit 832 833 837 839 839