Dr. Alexander B. Mott's surgical operations : series no. 1.

  • Mott, Alexander B. (Alexander Brown), 1826-1889.
Date:
[1857?]
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    CASE OF EXOSTOSIS OCCUPYING THE ORBIT AND NASAL CAVITY, Successfully Removed, and Vision Restored. BY ALEXANDER B. MOTT, M.D., Surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital, and the Jew's Hospital, New York, Sfc, Sfc. [From the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia. Vol. xxxiii, January, 1857.] Tumors in the orbit, combined with exostosis, have long been familiar to every surgeon of experience. Sir Astley Cooper, in his Surgical Essays (part i., p. 157), in the earlier part of the century excited considerable attention by the nar- rative of one which proved fatal in consequence of making its way through the orbitar process of the os frontis to the brain ; and Mr. Guthrie, the celebrated English military surgeon who has lately been removed from the world of science, records others which especially attracted his notice. One of these, however, was on a very small scale, not exceeding in dimen- sion the size of a large marble, a point at which it seemed to have remained stationary ; while a second, of larger growth, effectually resisted the application of the actual cautery, which seems to have been the only mode of treatment that suggested itself to the practitioner. On the continent of Europe we find numerous cases detailed by Brassant, Langenbeck, and others in the various scientific journals of France and Germany, all of which were accompanied by more or less displacement of the eye. But I am not aware of any so extensive as that which fell under my observation in the following instance; and though Mr. Guthrie, on finding the cautery fail, afterwards proposed the use of the saw and chisel, I believe my operation will be found original. The patient, William Hoy, aged thirty-three, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a wood turner by trade, had about
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