Microphthalmos with cystic protrusion from the globe / by E. Treacher Collins.

  • Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937
Date:
[1897]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Microphthalmos with cystic protrusion from the globe / by E. Treacher Collins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by UCL Library Services. The original may be consulted at UCL (University College London)

    1/20
    Reprinted from Vol. XVII of the Ophthalmological Society's ' Transactions.' Microphthalmos with cystic protrusion from the globe. By B. Treacher Collins. In 1893 I described to this Society three congenitally microphthalmia eyes I had examined microscopically, in which there was a protrusion of retinal tissue through a gap in the sclerotic. I had previously described another case of a similar character recorded by Mr. Lang in the ' Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital Reports' (vol. xii, p. 289). Since 1893 I have examined three more microph- thalmia eyes presenting this abnormality,—one removed by Mr. J. R. Rolston, who kindly entrusted me with the pathological examination of the specimen, and two I have removed myself from patients under my care at the Moorfields Hospital, which I have to show you this evening. Having thus had considerable material upon which to study this rare form of congenital malformation, I may presume to generalise, and propose to give you a descrip- tion of it drawn chiefly from the seven eyes I have examined, but also partly from those described by others. Though the patients presenting this abnormality of the eye are frequently the subjects of malformations of other parts of the body (Kundrat's cases [1] ; Case 1, ' Trans. Ophth. Soc.,' vol. xiii; Case 2 in this paper), it also occurs in individuals who are in all other respects ap- parently perfectly healthy and well formed (Case 2, f Trans. Ophth. Soc./ vol. xiii; Case 1 in this paper). Though all my specimens are alike in one particular, namely, in being microphthfilmic eyes with a protrusion