Implantation of a gold ball for the better support of an artificial eye / by L. Webster Fox.

  • Fox, L. Webster (Lawrence Webster), 1853-1931.
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: Implantation of a gold ball for the better support of an artificial eye / by L. Webster Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal IMPLANTATION OF A GOLD BALL FOR THE BETTER SUPPORT OF AN ARTIFICIAL EYE. By L. WEBSTER FOX, A. M, M. D., PROFESSOR OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL COLLEGE. It is now five years since I devised the method of implanting a glass ball into the orbital cavity in cases where the eyeball had previously been re- moved. The method followed at that time was as follows: An incision was made through the con- junctiva and tissues of the orbit in the horizontal direction, fourteen millimetres long, corresponding to scant the diameter of the glass ball to be inserted. For instance, if the glass ball is sixteen millimetres, the incision would be fourteen millimetres. The upper lip of the conjunctiva is raised and, with sharp-pointed curved scissors, the conjunctiva and such connective tissue as lie close to it are dissected off in all directions around the incision, making a pouch into which the glass ball will fit. The edges of the conjunctiva are brought together over the ball by five or six stitches and the after-dressing is the same as is followed in evisceration cases. This is the description of my first operation. The defect in this operation was that, in healing, the con- traction of the tissues caused a rupture of the two Copyright, 1901 and 1902, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company. for January 18, 1902. PHILADELPHIA,