Perforating wounds of the orbit / by W. Morrant Baker.
- William Morrant Baker
- Date:
- [1888]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Perforating wounds of the orbit / by W. Morrant Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![7?n [Reprinted from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, Vol. XXIV] PERFORATING WOUNDS OF THE ORBIT. . ' I j ■/ • BY W. MORRANT BAKER. That the orbit forms an easy route by which a weapon may enter the brain has been recognised ever since men fenced and fought; and curious facts in connection with the surgery of perforating wounds of the orbit are well known to those whose attention has been specially drawn to such injuries. To many, however, they may be less familiar; while even those more or less acquainted with the literature of the subject may be glad, I have thought, to have an account of some cases hitherto un- recorded. The following case was admitted into St. Bartholomew’s Hos- pital under my care near the end of the year 1883. For the notes, from which 1 have made a brief abstract, I am indebted to Mr. George F. Aldous. Case I.—A man, T. J., 26 years old, was admitted into Harley Ward on the night of the’22nd December 1883, in a comatose condition. When brought to the Surgery at about eight o’clock in the evening, the patient was insensible, and on the supposition that he was drunk, various remedies were employed by the House- Surgeon on duty. The stomach was emptied of about two quarts of a blackish fluid; the galvanic battery was used, and hot coffee was given, but all without avail, so far as rousing him from his insensible condition was concerned. He was, therefore, removed to the ward. On further investigation, it was found that the patient had 1 ost power of motion in the left arm and leg; the pupils were contracted, and did not act to a strong light. The only sign of injury was a small wound just beneath the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2245360x_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
