Contributions to practical surgery / by William Stokes.

  • Stokes, Sir William, 1839-1900.
Date:
1866
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    [.Reprinted from the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports, Vol. V., Parts 1 and 2.] A LECTURE ON POSTERIOR STAPHYLOMA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TWO SINGULAR CASES. (.Moorfields, June 2nd, 1865.) With a Supplementary Note on Posterior Staphyloma (so called) AND HyPERMETROPIA. By J. F. Streatfeild, F.R.C.S. In the last edition of our most comprehensive English work on eye diseases, published in 1854, we read of staphy- loma posticum, that it “ has been met with on dissection,” and nothing more is said of it. That there was such a disease, or, even more, that it produced such results as are now well understood by posterior staphyloma, was hardly known before the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The title is not a very good one. Posterior staphyloma (or “ sclerectasia posterior ”) is rather a name for the effects of disease than for the disease itself; but, until we know more of the mode or modes of production of posterior staphy- loma, it is convenient, and, I think, speaking generally, it is better than the alternative of “ sclerotico choroiditis pos- terior,” which may or may not have existed, certainly does not always exist, in cases such as those of which I am about to speak. But then, again, in posterior staphyloma, so called, it must not be understood that there is always a staphylomatous part that is so only, or even particularly, to the extent of the disease, as it is seen with the ophthalmo- scope, but there may he only a general staphylomatous extension of the coats of the eye posteriorly. Posterior staphyloma B **