A handbook of surface antomy and landmarks / by Bertram C.A. Windle.

  • Windle, Bertram C. A. (Bertram Coghill Alan), 1858-1929.
Date:
1888
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Credit: A handbook of surface antomy and landmarks / by Bertram C.A. Windle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    the face is the rule, deviations such as those occurring in the statue, commonly occur in the upper half. II. The Eye and its Appendages. Orbit.—The bony margin of the orbit has been already alluded to, and it need therefore only here be mentioned that for protective purposes the outer and upper portions are stronger and more prominent than the inner and lower, and especially the former. By tolerably deep pressure in the internal and superior angle the little projection to which the pully of the superior oblique muscle is attached, may be distinguished. The roof of the orbit as well as part of its floor is excessively thin, the former in old persons being sometimes no thicker than writing paper ; it may therefore be easily fractured by a comparatively insignificant implement. Eyelids, etc.—The skin covering the upper eyelid is thin and delicate, loosely attached to the subjacent tissues, fringed at its margin with two or more rows of hairs, the eye-lashes, and marked with several cres- centic furrows, convex upwards. Incisions in this part should be made parallel to these lines. The lax attach- ment of the skin renders the accumulation of fluid in the subcutaneous areolar tissue an easy matter, the large effusion of blood in the common black eye being thus accounted for. This is also a position often selected for the first appearance of puflincss at the commence- ment of renal anasarca or dropsy. By pinching up the eyelid in the subject the student