A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / To which is prefixed, an anatomical introduction explanatory of a horizontal section of the human eyeball, by Thomas Wharton Jones. From the 4th rev. and enl. London ed. With notes and additions by Addinell Hewson.
- William Mackenzie
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- 1855
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / To which is prefixed, an anatomical introduction explanatory of a horizontal section of the human eyeball, by Thomas Wharton Jones. From the 4th rev. and enl. London ed. With notes and additions by Addinell Hewson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![§ 4. Filaria ocuU humani. Tlie discovery of a species of filaria in the interior of the human eye, we owe to Dr. Nordmann, of Odessa. On examining an opaque crystalline lens, extracted by (Jriifo, and partially covered by its capsule, Dr. N. detected in the Morgagnian fluid, two very small and delicate rings, which, with the aid of the microscope, he recognized as convoluted lilariie. One of the two had been wounded in the middle, probablj^ by the instrument used for open- ing the capsule, so that the intestines ])rotruded from the body, and appeared like fine threads. The other was uninjured, about three-quarters of a line long, and extremely slender. It was spirally convoluted, and completely dead. In a lens extracted by Dr. Jiingkcu, Dr. Nordmann afterwards found a living filaria, five lines and a half long. §§ 5, 6. Monostoma mid Distoma oculi humani. In an extracted lens. Dr. Nordmann detected eight minute individuals of the genus monostoma; and Drs. Gescheidt and Ammon, on another occa- sion, found four of the genus distoma, » Cours d'Anatomie Mcdicale; Tome iv. p. 418; Paris, 1803. '^ Medico-Chirurgical Transactions; Vol. xvii. p. 48 ; London, 1831. Medical Times and Gazette, November 6, 1852, p. 465. * London Medical Gazette; Vol. xxii. p. 839. See a second case by Estlin, Ibid.; Vol. sxvi. p. 5 : Case by Baum, Annales de rOculistique; Tome ii. p. 69; Bruxelles, 1839 : By Hoering, Ibid., p. 71: By Cunier, Ibid.; Tome vi. p. 271; Bruxelles, 1842: By Canton, Lancet, April 22, 1848, p. 451: By Bowman, in which the hyda- tid lay between the external rectus and the la- chrymal gland, Medical Times and Gazette, November 6, 1852, p. 466: Cases by Sichel, Archives d'Ophthalmologie; Tome ii. p. 238; Paris, 1854. ' Isis, von Oken; 1830; Heft vii. p. 707 : Schmalz, Tabula; Anatomiam Entozoorum illus- trantes, p. 11 ; Dresda;, 1831: Advertisement appended to Schott's Controverso iiber die Ner- ven des Nabelstrangcs und seiner Gefiissc; Frankfurt am Main, 1836. The case published by Neumann (Rust's Magazin fiir die gesammte lieilkunde; Vol. xxxiii. p. 529 ; Berlin, 1831) was one of spontaneous dislocation of the lens, and not a hj-daiid. His figures, as well as his narrative, show this. See Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, January, 1851, p. 120. Alessi (Delle Elmintiasi nelle sue relazioni colla Oculistica, p. 26; Roma, 1850) relates a case as one of hydatid, which seems to have been one rather of effused lymph, as, under the influence of calomel and blisters, the substance seen in the eye was absorbed and disappeared. ' Case of Animalcule in the eye of a child, by Robert Logan; 1833. ' Lancet, July, 22, 1848, p. 91. ° Archives d'Ophthalmologie; Tome i. p. 58; Paris, 1853. ' [Archiv. fiir Ophthalmologic; Vol. i. p. 467; containing two colored figures of the parasite, as seen within the eye.—IL] ' Consult Thomson, Cyclopfedia of Anatomy and Physiology; Suppl. pp. 25,40; London, 1852, 1854. Mongin, Journal de Medecine de Paris, 1770 ; Tome xxxii. p. 338. '^ Lancet, June 1, 1844, p. 309. '' Mikrographische Beitrage zur Naturge- schichte der wirbellosen Thiere; Heft i. p. 7; Berlin, 1832. '* Ibid.; Heft ii. p. ix. Zeitschrift fiir die Ophthalmologie; Vol. iii. p. 75 ; Dresden, 1833 : On Entozoa in the eyes of man and other animals, consult Ge- scheidt, Ibid., p. 405.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21014760_1021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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