Causes of blindness in India : treatment and cure, &c / by G.C. Hall.

  • Hall, Geoffry C.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Causes of blindness in India : treatment and cure, &c / by G.C. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is quite painless and stationary—that is to say, has not visibly increased for a number of years ; sometimes it increases very rapidly. I saw a case a very short time ago in which the entire cornea was covered Avith a large fleshy pterygium which, after having been stationary as a small one at the side of the cornea and not interferino- o wdth vision, had in four months increased to this extent, entirely destroying vision. My friend Dr. Deakin of Allahabad saw this case with me. Sometimes you see it causing great irritation, the patient complaining that he can feel it every time he moves his lid. On turning up the lid it will be found distinctly granular, and the surface of the pterygium will be found red and angry- looking. Lawson states in his ‘ Diseases of the Eye’ that he has never seen the pupil occluded completely. Wells, I believe, also says so. I have seen it quite closed up out here, where I be- lieve the disease is more common and also severer than in England. This is when it causes blind- ness, and it is for this reason that it occupies our attention now. One more fact I may mention with regard to it is that very often it annoys
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