Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
- Bader, Charles.
- Date:
- 1864
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![stance, and of retina, all changed, displaced, and adhering together. Some portions of the posterior chamber are much enlarged. Part of the greyish- yellow and opaque lens lies at the side of the preparation. The other half of this specimen is in the Museum of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. E. R., aged 17 (under the care of Mr. Wordsworth, Royal London Opththalmic Hospital), a healthy man of fair complexion, states that when one year old a spark of fire touched the left eye, impairing- vision ; but that there had been good perception of light until July 1860, when the operation of division of the ciliary muscle was performed elsewhere, once in the lower and once in both upper and lower ciliary region. Vision was entirely lost after the first operation, and the eye became smaller. Last Christmas, while skating, the eye became inflamed, watering, and painful; these symptoms are increasing. Since the inflam- mation of the left eye, the right has suffered much from lachrymation, photophobia, and in- ability to fix objects for any length of time. The left eye was excised, January 25th, 186]. Dissection.—The eye was large and elongated. The optic nerve bad a grey-pink colour. Cornea enlarged, transparent. Anterior chamber large. Iris dirty greenish yellow. The yellowish opaque lens floated loosely behind the pupillary area. The sclerotic and choroid were in apposition; the former was very thin throughout. Microscopic sections •prepared from this eye.—Slides 1 & 2. Portions of choroid, showing the light-brown stellate pigment, the healthy choroidal epithelium, its cells being filled with grey opalescent granules ; the other portion showing the ciliary nerves, the arteries, and the stellate pigment attached to the former. Slides 3 & 4. Transverse sections of the optic nerve, from the sclero-choroidal aperture. The central blood-vessel is large, and has been ruptured, the blood escaping among the atrophic portions of the nerve ; the connective tissue can be recognized. The bundles of optic nerve-fibres are extremely small. 43. The lateral portions of the anterior half, and a lateral part of the posterior half of the tunics of a right eye. The section is carried through the middle of the optic nerve, parallel with its nerve-fibres, and through a cicatrix in the sclerotic near the margin of the cornea. Neither lens nor vitreous is pre- sent. The grey opaque and folded membrane which projects from the optic nerve into the interior of the eye is the retina, which has become detached from the brown choroid. The ciliary processes are hidden from view by opaque portions of displaced retina, and by opaque inflammatory products thrown out upon their inner surface. 44. The opposite portion of the posterior half of the same eye, preserved in d 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21641857_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
