Retrospect of British and foreign medical journals / by Thomas Windsor.

  • Windsor, Thomas, 1831-1910.
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[1865]
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    applied to the author;—lids and eye normal, except that blood was effused under the conjunctiva ; vision good when the other eye is closed. The globe is about a line more forward and about the same distance lower than the left eye. It can be moved to only a limited extent. After repeated examinations, it is found that it can be rotated in each direction only f ths of a line ; even in the vision of distant objects (the eyes ai’e'emmetropic) there is constant diplopia, owing to the depression of the globe. The range of accommodation of both eyes, tested separately, is equal and normal. The treatment consisted at first of repeated local blood-letting and a compressing bandage ; the subconjunctival ecchymosis disappeared in ten days, and the mobility somewhat increased in the direction inwards. As, however, the latter made no distinct advance in the following five or six days, the induction current was applied to the closed eyelids by means of a large sponge. After ten applications the mobility was normal, with the exception of a slight deficiency in the abducens. The treatment was then discontinued, and in four weeks the abducens also had perfectly recovered. C. Bader : On the Treatment of Granular Conjunctivitis by Inoculation with Pus (Guy's Hospital Reports, 3rd Series, x. 61).— We do not find in this paper, apparently the first of a series, any fresh information. The author asserts, that in cases with more or less large superficial ulcerations of the cornea, superadded to pannus and granular ophthalmia, the ulcers rapidly heal after inoculation. He thinks that where the upper half of the cornea is opaque, and the lower half nearly or quite transparent, the latter is likely to become more rapidly vascular if the eyelids are kept closed. He appends a form for taking notes of these cases, for which we must refer to the original. E. Junge : On the Mechanical Centre of the Eye (Russian Journal of Military Medicine, vol. lxxxii., and in abstract in the St. Petersb. Med. Zeitschr., ii. 93). Dr. Bahr : The Operation for Entropium (St. Petersb. Med. Zeitschr., ii. 142).—Anton Hesser has published in the Oesterr. Zeitungf. pralct. Heilk. for 1860, Ho. 38, a case from Jiiger’s clinic at Vienna, in which, twenty years previously, so large a piece of skin had been excised that the eyelids could not be perfectly closed, and yet the entropium, after a time, had recurred. A little consideration, indeed, shows that the everting power, or rather the resistance to inversion, induced by most of the operations proposed is but slight, for lagophthalmos, and not ectropium, is produced, when they are