Observations and cases relating to the operation for artificial pupil; in a letter from Mr. Maunoir of Geneva, to Professor Scarpa of Pavia, with the professor's answer / communicated by Dr. Marcet.

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822.
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[1816]
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    the small pupil which I have mentioned, I sue- ceeded in making an incision without wounding the capsula or the crystalline, cutting the orbicular muscle in a transverse direction, and continuing nearly parallel between the fibres of the diverging or radiating muscle; this incision describes an en- tire radius of the disc of the iris. Its immediate result was a perfect triangular pupil of the most brilliant black. « Every thing went on well during the first 50 hours, when Mr. Cherbuliez having made a violent effort in going to stool, caused a small hernia of the iris. This accident did not change the form or the size of the pupil. I have three times effect- ed the depression of this rupture of the iris, by m- troducing a needle for the cataract. At present the staphyloma is httle or nothing. Mr. Cherbuliez has resumed the ordinary course of his affairs, he writes and can read the finest written characters, nor is his eye fatigued even by a long series of occupation. • I come now to the account of the last operatiom which I have performed. A woman of the name of Saillard, 26 years o* acre, and mother of an infant of some months, re^ ceived a thorn in her left eye, as she was cutting wood in a forest, about two years ago. bhe aw