Ophthalmic notes / by C.R. Agnew.

  • Cornelius Rea Agnew
Date:
1874
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Credit: Ophthalmic notes / by C.R. Agnew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such nutritious food as could be taken. In a comparatively few hours the interior of the eye seemed to be engaged in pyogenic action, and to furnish a free flow of pus, somewhat tinged with blood. Under this inflammatory action the cornea soon sloughed, the eye rapidly diminished in size, painlessly shrinking until it formed a bulb not more than four or five lines in diameter. We were impressed by the rapid diminution of the size of the eyeball. It seemed as though it quickly melted. There was very little pain after the pyogenic action was fairly set up, and at no time was much, if any, inflammatory action in the circumocular connective tissue. It occurred to me that the disaster might possibly be due to atheroma of one or more of the branches of the ophthalmic artery.
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