A treatise on the diseases of the eye / By W. Lawrence.

  • Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Date:
1847
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye / By W. Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TAGY. Varieties dependent on age . . 625 Causes . . . . ib. Treatment . • . .629 Prognosis . . . . ib. Time for operating . . . 631 Operations .... 633 Preparation of the patient . . ib. Various operations . . . 634 SECTION II. Extraction of the cataract . . 63!) Questions of operating on both eyes at the same time . . . ib. Instruments; various knives . 636 Position of the patient . . 638 Fixing the eye . . . 639 Division of the cornea . . ib. Superior section . . . 640 Division of the capsule and removal of the lens . . . 643 Escape of vitreous humor . . 644 Exterior and inferior section . 645 Inferior section . . . 646 Operation of extraction without an assistant . . . ib. Treatment after the operation . 647 Inflammation . . . 649 Prolapsus iridis . . . 650 Cases fit or unfit for extraction . 651 SECTION III. Depression or couching . . 652 Reclination .... 653 PAOE After treatment . . . 654 Absorption of the depressed lens . 656 SECTION IV. The operation by solution or absorp- tion . . . 658 [Additional remarks on operation by absorption] . . . 659 Whether the lens is removed by ab- sorption or solution . . 661 Danger from the passage of a hard lens or hard fragments into the anterior chamber . . ib. Capsule not absorbed . . 662 Keratonyxis . . . ib. [Jacob's needle and mode of operat- ing with] .... 664 Operation when the capsule is opaque, and the pupil adherent . 666 SECTION V. Congenital cataract; its nature . 666 Whether really congenital . . 667 Affecting several members of the same family . . . 668 Operation on infants . . ib. Operation on opaque capsule . 669 Various proceedings . . ib. Anterior operation on the infant . 670 Posterior . . . .671 Proper age for the operation . ib. Secondary cataract . . . 672 CHAPTER XXII. GENERAL AFFECTIONS OF THE GLOEE. SECTION I. Inflammation of the globe Symptoms . Effects Diagnosis Treatment . Ophthalmitis arthritica SECTION II. 673 ib. 675 676 ib. 677 Inflammation and destructive suppu- ration of the eye, as a secondary effect of phlebitis . . . 677 [Additional remarks] . . 679 SECTION III. Sympathetic ophthalmia . . 682 SECTION IV. Hydrophthalmia . . . 686 SECTION V. Atrophy of the eye . . . 687 Collapse of the globe from suppura- tion . . . .688 SECTION VI. Exophthalmia 688
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