Detachment of corneal epithelium / by J. Acworth Menzies.

  • Menzies, James Acworth, 1869-1921.
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[1902]
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    DETACHMENT OF CORNEAL EPITHELIUM.^ By J. AcwoRTH Menzies, M.D. (Edin,). It has happened to me to meet with several cases of this condition recently, and the fact that there is very scanty reference to it in the text-books is my apology for bringing the subject forward. Essentially the condition is one of defective attachment of the surface epithelium of the cornea to Bowman's mem- brane, and it usually follows a superficial abrasion, v. Arlt ^ appears to have observed cases as long ago as 1869, and to have published his observations first of all in 1874. He considered that the new epithelium formed after the abrasion was not firmly enough attached to the subjacent tissue and so easily became separated. Grandclement ^ described similar cases in 1888 as cases of traumatic keratalgia, and in 1889 Bronner^ read a paper on the subject before the Ophthalmological Society in which he stated that when other means failed, cure might be effected by excision of the corneal cicatrix. For a full account of the historical aspect of the subject the papers of Szili* and v. Reuss ^ may be consulted. Sziii may be said to have crystallised the whole subject in his admirable paper Ueber Disjunction des Hornhautsepithels, and v. Reuss's later paper, Die Erosionen der Hornhalit und ihre Folgen, still ' Read at the Meeting of the British Medical Association (Section on Ophthalmology), Manchester, 1902.