Atlas of the external diseases of the eye : including a brief treatise on the pathology and treatment / by O. Haab ; Authorized translation from the German, edited by G.E. de Schweinitz.

  • Haab O. (Otto), 1850-1931.
Date:
1899
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    to produce tliis affection must he treated and watched with the utmost care, and such eves must he euuoleated which threaten sympathetic iritis, especially such as have hadly healing wounds in the ciliary region. If the scars in such eyes begin to contract, they usually are ready for enucle- ation, especially if to other indications are added ahnor- mally low tension, persistent ciliary congestion, and ten- derness on pressure. The prevention and cure of trau- matic iritis demand the removal of anv foreign hodv which may he within the glohc, a })rocedure still more earnestly demanded if sympathetic iritis threatens. If .sympathetic inflammation has already set in, imme- diate enucleation of the eye originally affected is usually indicated. This is to he followed hv long-continued myd- riasis (with atropin) in a dark room and a cour.se of in- uncticnis with hlue ointment. In order to guard against the occurrence of traumatic, and especially sympathetic iritis, it is well never to oj>er- ate on an inflamed eye except for the removal of a for- eign body or for other im])erative rea.sons. Operation on a sympathetically affected eye is never advisable until .some time after the subsidence of all inflammatory symptoms, when an attempt may be made to improve the visual power by an iridectomy. If occlusion takes place after iritis, iridectomy must be performed early, to prevent the occurrence of glaucoma. 2. Injuries of the Iris. Injuries of medicolegal signiflcauce, caused by violent external force are .sometimes met with in the iris. Such are fissures in the pupillary margin and i-nptnre of the sphincter, which destroy the ciixadar outline of the pupil, and, by producing jiartial or total paralysis, give rise to fraumrdic mi/driasis, althongh the latter is al.‘;o caused by simple contusion of the nerves. Iridodiali/sis is the term ap|)lied to a rupture of the eiliarv attachment, in which a dark crescentic opening is formed in the periphery of the