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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![with headache. Next clay she became feverish, and was confined to her bed for nine weeks, the headache continuing' all the time. On the fourteenth day both eyes became watering, inflamed, and painful; in this state they remained for six weeks, after which the left re- covered, while vision of the right was reduced to perception of light; lately it has become quite blind. No flashes or muscse were seen. The right eye was excised, October 12th. 1861. Dissection.—Eyeball considerably shrunken and squared. Sclerotic much thickened. The choroid had a deep-brown colour, its inner surface round the optic nerve and along the ora serrata covered with a thick deposit of bone ; the intermediate portions were thickly sprinkled with calcareous granules. Retina funnel-shaped, detached from the choroid, yellowish and opaque. The space between retina and choroid was occupied by a chocolate-coloured fluid. 1 ] 9. A lateral portion of an irregularly shaped and considerably shrunken left eye. The large cavity in the interior loosely enclosed a large chalky lens; it is * surrounded by a considerable quantity of dense fibrous tissue. The opaque cornea, the thickened sclerotic, and some portions of the brown choroid are the only elements of the eye which can be recognized as such. 120. The other portion of the same eye. From a girl, aged 10, whose left eye was excised at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hos- pital, August 14th, 1860. Dissection.—Cornea: upper two-thirds transparent, lower third opaque. Anterior chamber small. Iris: posterior synechias; pupillary area closed by a grey, opaque, dense membrane. The other morbid appearances are seen in the preparation. 121. Two lateral portions of a considerably shrunken left eye, showing a thickened, folded sclerotic, an opacfue cornea, and in the ciliary region small portions of choroid with a grey fibrous deposit on their inner surface. The sclerotic belonging to the ciliary region has retained more of its natural curve than the part corresponding to the retinal area. C. C, aged 30 (under the care of Mr. Streatfeild, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), a healthy woman, had, fourteen years ago, some inflammation of both eyes, followed by nebuhe ; to remove these, powdered copperas was applied. This was followed, in the left eye, by a severe inflammation, with sloughing of the cornea, and by rapid shrinking of the eye to a small stump. The left eye was excised, September 26th, 1861. Dissection.—The eye was irregularly shaped, and much shrunken. Optic nerve small, atrophic, pinkish. Crystalline lens, vitreous, and retina missing. Choroid of an almost black colour; firmly adherent to its inner surface was a considerable layer of bone, deposited round the choroidal aperture.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21641857_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
