Tension of the eyeball, glaucoma, etc. : some account of the operations practised in the nineteenth century for their relief : (a paper read before the Midland Medical Society, February 3rd, 1863) / by James Vose Solomon.

  • Solomon, James Vose, 1817-1899.
Date:
1865
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    read small pica (Jaeger’s No. 8) with a sixteen-inch convex glass. In two days later (August 2nd), he was submitted again to an ophthalmoscopic examina- tion, when the vitreous humour was found clear, and the optic disc and retinal circulation were readily focused. The lens-capsule had stHl a granular aspect, although perhaps less so than before the operation. On the 9th of August, the patient, with the aid of the spectacles which it had been his habit to wear for the last twelve months, read bourgeois type (Jaeger’s No. 4). Among the early effects of the treatment was a re- storation of the natural elasticity of the globe, which has, I believe, proved permanent. At the end of August, the man resumed his work. It is curious that, after the intraocular myotomy, his old spectacles occasioned no inconvenience what- ever, presenting, in this respect, one of the several pai’adoxes which meet investigators of optical accom- modation. In the following case, the state of the optical ac- commodation, before and after section of the ciliary structures, has been noted. Case v. Glaucomoid Tension (T 2i) of the Bight Eye; Intraocular Myotomy; Cure. Synechia Posterior of the Left. Iridectomy; Cure. State of Accommoda- tion and Vision before and after Operation, Emma B., aged 39, was admitted with subacute corneitis and irido-choroiditis (specific) of the right eye, on Feb- ruary 28th, 1862. In the left were numerous and broad adhesions of the iris to the lens (synechia poste- rior), but no inflammation. She was suffering, at the time of her admission, from severe ptyalism and gi’eat