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

Date:
1841
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Credit: Report of the cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, during the years 1838 and 1839 / by Richard Middlemore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    went of the sclerotica takes place as this fluid aug- ments in quantity, whilst its diminution occurs when, from any circumstance, it becomes wholly or par- tially absorbed. This subject, (by which I mean the particular form of disease now described with its attendant circumstances as now detailed,) is not referred to by systematic writers on diseases of the eye, so that I have examined their works for information in vain, neither have I been more suc- cessful in my enquiries among my professional friends. The disease in question will be distin- guished from that pouchiform varicosity of the choroid vessels, (a frequent consequence of chronic inflammation of the tunica choroidea), which pro- duces a number of small bluish prominences at various parts of the sclerotica, but chiefly at that part near the margin of the cornea ; whereas the sclerotic enlargement is generally of large size, possesses an equal surface, is confined to one spot, exists at some distance from the margin of the cornea, and is either not discoloured at all, or oidy so in the slightest possible degree. MELANOTIC GROWTH FROM THE SEMILUNAR MEMRRANE. In the fifth volume of the Transactions* 1 related the case of Mrs. Banister, for whom I removed a small melanotic growth attached to the semilunar membrane. This growth never reappeared, neither did the eye become the seat of melanosis, although this disease existed in various other organs and tissues to an extent which eventually destroyed life.