Ophthalmic surgery / by J. F. Streatfield.

  • Streatfied, J. F.
Date:
[1872]
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Credit: Ophthalmic surgery / by J. F. Streatfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nioi^copc, lie makes the needle enter tins prominence ; then he gives to an assistant the ophthalmoscope, to direct the light into the eye ; he then passes a second similar needle, also through the sclerotic, at a third of an inch from the first, and, not passing it further in than the first, he directs it to the same spot, so that it may also enter the detached retina ; and he makes them touch. Finally, by approximating the handles, without any other change of position of the two needles, he makes the rent in the retina. To he sure that this is done, he withdraws now the second needle, and examines the fundus again with the ophthalmoscope himself, to see if the subretinal fluid has entered the vitreous chamber, to see the rent if possible, or some evidence of the success of the operation. If there be none, he re-introduces the second needle, to repeat the operation. ' THE EXD. IfKADBLTKY, EVAlsti, AND CO., rKIiS'TEIl.S, WlUTEi-tUAKS.
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