Manchester Eye Hospital, 3, South Parade, St. Mary's, founded in the year 1814 : the forty-ninth annual report, for the year 1864.

  • Manchester Eye Hospital.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Manchester Eye Hospital, 3, South Parade, St. Mary's, founded in the year 1814 : the forty-ninth annual report, for the year 1864. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III.-RECORD OF OPERATIONS, The operations* performed during the year 1864 were :— 269 244 on 117 male and 115 female; together 232 out-patients. )) hi I) 50 „ „ J47 in-door patients. 513 operations on 208 male and 171 female; together 379 patients. Repeated operations were made :— 34 upon 11 male and 12 female; together 23 out-patients. 40 „ 19 „ 15 „ „ 34 in-patients. 80 „ 30 „ 27 „ „ 57 patients. Bilateral operations wei'e 54, 2)erformed on 43 in-patients and 12 out-]Datients, viz.;—• Iridectomy 30 Discision 14 Tenotomy 4 Iridoiiesis 3 Spoon Extraction 1 Entropium Oneration 1 Weber’s Incision of lachrymal canal 1 SPECIFIED LIST. Name of Operation. Lids: Ectropium operationi Entropium „ ® Trichiasis „ ® Ptosis „ * Removal of tumours* Lachrymal passages: Weber’s operation” Bowman’s ,, ” Obliteration of sae Incision „ Covjunciival sac: Symblepbaroii operation^ Puncture of orbita Syudectomy 54 Number. 4 5 15 — 20 1 23 23 12 1 4 — 40 5 6 4 • Minor operations, such as paracentesis corneae, removal of foreign boSies from the surface of the eye, sutures, probings, cauterisations, faradisations, applications of 1 leui teloup's artificial leech, &o., are omitted in this list. 1. The methods adopted were (1) excision of conjunctiva ; (2) Fr. von Jaeger’s plan ; (3) Tar- Boraphy ; (4) Plastic operation. 2. The procedures were (1) excision of skin ; (2) ligature of integument, twice; (3) the same, combined with the canihoplastio operation in t«o cases. 3. The plans followed were for the most part excision of hair bulbs; in some cases excision or ligaturing of a fold of skin, or transplantation of lashes, and in one the cauthoplastio operation. 4. Hunt’s operation. 5. Tliese tumours were mostly of the ordinary kind. i.e. encysted ones, and containing a grumous, or glairy mass; in some instances they were papillary excrescences; one was a small polypous growth on the tarsal edge. 6. Sevc' al not recorded. 7. Simple division in three cases; the wire ligature (Quiz) in one case, and tra- staraal ligature (Arlt) in another.