A treatise on the operations for the formation of an artificial pupil; in which morbid states of the eye requiring them, are considered : and the mode of performing the operation, adapted to each peculiar case, fully explained; with an account of the opinions and practice of the different foreign and British authors who have written on the subject / by G. J. Guthrie.

  • Guthrie, G. J.
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1819
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Credit: A treatise on the operations for the formation of an artificial pupil; in which morbid states of the eye requiring them, are considered : and the mode of performing the operation, adapted to each peculiar case, fully explained; with an account of the opinions and practice of the different foreign and British authors who have written on the subject / by G. J. Guthrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the different methods offo/ming an Arti* ficial Pupil There are four successful methods of forming an artificial pupil, and two which are doubtful* all subject to particular modifications. 1. By division of the iris either through the sclerotica, or through an opening in the cornea, called by foreign authors Coretomia,* (properly) Corotomia* Coretotomia/ (less correctly). Iri- dotomia.* Being the operation invented by Che- selden/ recommended by Morand'and Sharpen and afterwards abandoned. Having been denied by Lassus, supposed by Cloquet,4 to have been merely a division of the membrana pupiJlaris, and again restored by Sir W. Adams/ being effected through the sclerotica. Recommended « Called by continental authors, especially Wagner and Langenbeck, Coremorphoseos. Kip (pupill.) et Mo^l5 (rormatio). s * By Him]y> from Kip, pupilla oculi. et Toim} (sectio,) * By Beer, ' e By Schmidt. d By Wagner, Comments io de Coremorphosi. Goet, ting*, 1818, from ^ (iri,) et To^ {sectio)< * Cheselden. Philosophical Transactions, 1728. /Morand. Eloge de M, Cheselden, insere dans les Memo.res de l'Academie de Chirurgic. Tome 2 in 4to. « Sharpe's Surgery. * Lassus. Pathologie Chirurgicale. Paris. CpSTmiT Mem0i'e m ,a MerabraQePupiHair«. i Adams. W, on Artificial Pupil, &c. 1812.