An analysis of one thousand consecutive cataract extractions / by F. P. Maynard.
- Maynard, F. P.
- Date:
- [1903]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: An analysis of one thousand consecutive cataract extractions / by F. P. Maynard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Albuminuria wag present in two patients who did well. One ^ot erythropsia for a time. Bronchitis.—Fourteen patients had bronchitis, of whom one did badly. We found afterwards that he kept his sputum in a cup under his pillow. Epilepsy.—Two patients were epileptics, an- other had had a fit of doubtful nature, and one was the daughter of an epileptic mother. One epileptic, aged 30, became severely epileptic at 20. His sight, perfect before, then became dim. The lenses looked like lamellar cataracts in situ, but after removal the nuclei were found to be involved also. The man's father (seen) had been successfully couched for cataract. The other epileptic, a clerk aged 36, had been tem- porarily insane four years previously, and, on recovei'ing after three months, was found to have diabetes. He had occasional epileptic tits. When first seen he had wedge-shaped cortical opacities. He did well and obtained V = ^ with glasses. Among otlier diseases met with among the cataractous patients were hemiplegia [three cases, two good and one indifferent tirir.is) result], phthisis (one good), elephantiasis (two good), malarial cachexia (one good), anwmia (two good), leprosy (severe case) both eyes very good results; gonorrhcea (one indifterent and one bad result), nasal discharge (one good and two bad results), dacryocystitis (one bad result). The cases of nasal discharge were not known to be such before operation. In the case of dacryocys- titis the sac was extirpated on the left side, probing and syringing, &c., having failed to cure it, and after an interval the right eye was operated on as its sac appeared healthy. It could not have been so as the eye suppurated. Age and sex.—The average age of 212 cases in the 300 series was 51 7 years. In 602 of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21638846_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
