Report of the cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, during the years 1838 and 1839 / by Richard Middlemore.

Date:
1841
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, during the years 1838 and 1839 / by Richard Middlemore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    11/22 (page 10)
    which was prolonged upon its surface, so as some- what to overlap its margin. The boy has scarcely any sight with this eye ; it is however free from inflammation, and by no means very painful. The lids are projected by the large globe ; sometimes the right eye is rendered a little uncomfortable, and the appearance of the child is peculiarly disagreeable. I have lately seen a similar state of eye in a patient attended by Mr. Royston, of Redditch. In this, as well as in Bembridge’s case, I have recommended that nothing should be done unless the globe should continue to enlarge, unless it should give rise to irritation of the opposite eye, or unless the subject of the affection should after a time be anxious for an operation on the ground of personal appearance. I have in several such instances evacuated the aqueous humour with a fine cataract needle or iris knife, and in this way prevented the disease from increasing. In one instance I excised a small portion of the centre of the cornea, and with the effect of much lessening the size of the globe, but not of producing its diminution sufficiently to allow of the patient’s wearing an artificial eye. TUMOUR SITUATED AT THE CORN EA- SCLEROTIC JUNCTION. Case 1.—William Davis, aet. 25, has a small tumour, about half the size of a pea, situated partly upon the cornea and partly upon the sclerotica, or, to speak more correctly, it appears to supersede a portion of the membranes, whose place and situation it occupies. It is of a dirty white colour, convex externally, of a firm texture, and apparently covered by conjunctiva, which cannot however be moved