A treatise on the diseases of the eye / By J. Soelberg Wells... Together with selections from the test-types of Prof. E. Jaeger and Prof. H. Snellen.

  • Wells, J. Soelberg (John Soelberg), -1879
Date:
1883
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye / By J. Soelberg Wells... Together with selections from the test-types of Prof. E. Jaeger and Prof. H. Snellen. 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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    which there was coloboma of both upper lids, with cutaneous frsena arising from the cornea, and running through the fissure into the skin of the fore- head. To cure this condition, the edges of the coloboma should be pared, and then accurately brought together by fine twisted sutures, which should, pass through the tarsus, the one suture being quite closely applied to the free edge of the lid, so that the lips of the cleft may here be very evenly and accurately united. [In rare cases the lids are wanting, either entirely or in part, and this may occur alone without corresponding defect in the eyeballs, though the latter and even the orbits may be entirely wanting, the skin of the forehead and cheek being continuous. ( Graefe u. Saemisch, Handb., ii. p. 103.—B.]
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