Practical observations on the formation of an artificial pupil, in several deranged states of the eye : to which are annexed, remarks on the extraction of soft cataracts, and those of the membraneous kind, through a puncture in the cornea : illustrated by plates / by Benjamin Gibson.

  • Gibson, Benjamin, 1774-1812.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Practical observations on the formation of an artificial pupil, in several deranged states of the eye : to which are annexed, remarks on the extraction of soft cataracts, and those of the membraneous kind, through a puncture in the cornea : illustrated by plates / by Benjamin Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    novel modes of practice. This opportunity has been afforded me, to an unexpected extent, by the introduction into this country of the contagious ophthalmia from Egypt; the effects of which, in destroying the organization of the eye, I have had occa- sion to witness in a great variety of forms. I have attempted to adapt the mode of operating to the several deranged states of the cornea and iris; and with the assistance of Mr. Savigny, have had instruments con- structed, to facilitate the formation of an artificial pupil, by means exempt from the degree of difficulty and danger, attending the generality of those operations, which have been proposed by other practitioners. In planning these modes of practice, two objects have been chiefly kept in view; to do little injury to the structure of the eye; and to render the operation as easy, and its result as perfect and certain, as possible. How far I have succeeded, the reader will be able to judge for himself in the subse- quent part of the work.