A lecture on posterior staphyloma, with special reference to two singular cases : with a supplementary note on posterior staphyloma (so called) and hypermetropia, and illustrations / by J.F. Streatfeild.

Streatfeild, John Fremlyn, 1828-1886.

Date:: 1866

Credit: A lecture on posterior staphyloma, with special reference to two singular cases : with a supplementary note on posterior staphyloma (so called) and hypermetropia, and illustrations / by J.F. Streatfeild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[Reprinted from the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, Vol. V., Parts 1 and 2.] A LECTDEE ON POSTEEIOE STAPHYLOMA, WITH SPECIAL EEFEEENCE TO TWO SINOULAE CASES. {Moorjields, June 2nd, 1865.) With a Suppleuentabt Note on Posteeiob St.^phylojia (so called) AND HyPEBMETBOPIA. By J. F. Streatfeild, F.R.C.S. In the last edition of oui- most comprehensive English work on eye diseases, published in 1854, we read of staphy- loma posticmn, that it “ has been met with on dissection,” and nothing more is said of it. That there was such a disease, or, even more, that it produced such results as are now well imderstood by posterior staphyloma, was hardly known before the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The title is not a very good one. Posterior staphyloma (or “ sclerectasia posterior ”) is rather a name for the effects of disease than for the disease itself; but, until we know more of the mode or modes of production of posterior staphy- loma, it is convenient, and, I think, speaking generally, it is better than the alternative of “ sclerotico choroiditis pos- terior,” which may or may not have existed, certainly does not always exist, in cases such as those of which I am about to speak. But then, again, in posterior staphyloma, so called, it must not be understood that there is always a staphylomatous part that is so only, or even particularly, to the extent of the disease, as it is seen with the ophthalmo- scope, but there may be only a general staphylomatous extension of the coats of the eye posteriorly. Posterior staphyloma B$