On the nature, and cure of strabismus : by operation / by J.A. Ratton.
- Ratton, James Alban, 1814-1865.
- Date:
- 1842
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the nature, and cure of strabismus : by operation / by J.A. Ratton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Calomel, 2 grs ; James’s powder, 3 grs. 12th. Both eyes are perfectly straight, and fol- low each other’s movements with regularity. The child’s bowels have been moved three times, and in all respects she is free from fever and excitement. I have performed this operation in two other ca- ses, without any material deviation. One in a child five years old, was equally successful. lathe other, that of an old woman of sixty, it was unattended with benefit to the Strabismus, which was of fifty-seven years’ standing. The operation in the other case, that of Mr. Crossland, is related by Mr.Bonnet, Lucas, as follows. In the presence, and with tlie assistance of Dr. Carrol], Mr. Toogood Downing, Mr. Wardrop, jun., and Mr. LI. Downing, 1 performed the following* ope- ration :—A bandage was applied to the sound eye to exclude the light, and the patient was seated on a low- backed chair before the window, and his head reclin- ed against Mr. Downing’s chest, who also supported the upper eyelid, by means of the wire speculum. Mr. Wardrop jun., depressed the lower lid. The patient, who possessed great moral strength, everted the turn- ed in eye to his utmost, and with the greatest facility 1 introduced a small, fine pointed hook into the inner conjunctiva, about three lines distance from the cor- nea, and, with a very fine straight knife, 1 divided this membrane, from below upwards, to the extent of half an inch, leaving* the hook still attached to the inner seg- ment of the incision. I next separated the divided inner portion of the conjunctiva from the subjacent sclerotic coat, by means of a blunt probe, and having introduced between the lips of the incision the bent probe, I passed it underneath the tendon of the inter-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22336813_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
