On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British).

  • Neill, Hugh
Date:
1848
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Credit: On the cure of cataract, with a practical summary of the best modes of operating, (Contintental and British). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    remains. In the event of any thing of this kind being perceived, it must be seized by the needle and buried in the vitreous humor. When the pupil is clear, the instrument is drawn from the eye in the same direction as that by which it was inserted—first turning the con- vex part towards the iris, and then upwards. The opera- tion being completed, the eye-lids are closed by a band- age of gummed taffeta, and the eye protected by a com- conciuding press attached to the forehead. Before the sixth day, no precautions. x * premature attempt should be made to ascertain whether the patient has recovered the sense of sight. [a] [a] Whereas I caution the sur- have saved my patient's eye by geon never, in the first six days such a peep, when inflammation after the operation, to let twelve has been going on, and no an- hours pass without inspecting the nouncement of it made by pain— conjunctiva, by gently drawing but having seen it, of course I down the lower lid. Very often I checked its progress.—H. N.