On a rare form of primary opacity (Transverse calcareous film) of the cornea / by Edward Nettleship.

  • Nettleship, Edward, 1845-1913.
Date:
[1881?]
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    ON A RARE FORM OF PRIMARY OPACITY {TRANSVERSE CALCAREOUS FILM^) OF THE CORNEA.f By EDWARD NETTLESHIP, F. R. C. S. THE disease referred to in this paper has long been known to surgeons, and is mentioned in most of th'e modern systematic works on diseases of the eye. A certain number of cases and observations upon the subject (some of them with excellent descriptions and plates) have been published from time to time, but for the most part observers do not seem to have thought it worth while to record their cases in detail. The disease is a rare one, generally very unobtrusive until well advanced, and it occurs for the most part in elderly people ; facts which have led to its being often looked on mainly as a curiosity. The first case that I had the opportunity of observing in detail was at Moor- fields in 1873, and I have to thank Mr. Hutchinson for allow- mg me to use the notes of this and of two other cases which have come under his care more lately (Cases 3, 4 and 5.) The occurrence quite lately of two good examples of it a.nong my patients at the South London Ophthalmic Hos- pital, led me to examine previously recorded cases and ac- counts of the disease, and with the result of findino- that the subject, although a very small one, appeared to^'have pomts of general interest which had not hitherto been suf- * This disease has received various names, i. e., Svmmetncnl On^r-ir,, ^rn— Ribbon-shaped and d^S^S^^^ 4^\X,%1^ Medico-Chirurgical Society of London,