Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids: with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and a description of ... new instruments & operations for and on cataract / By William Adams.

  • William Adams
Date:
1812
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Credit: Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids: with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and a description of ... new instruments & operations for and on cataract / By William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i9] might become entirely obliterated, as this young: lady had not the smallest control over any of the muscles connected with the eye. I next attempted to extract the capsule; but the motion of the eye was so incessant, that it rendered repeated efforts unavailing, and I waited in vain for more than an hour in the hope that I should be able to accomplish this, or to return the protruded portion of the iris through the puncture. Disappointed in both objects, Tresolved, if possible, to remove the protrusion, with a pair of curved-pointed scissars. I partly succeeded after repeated trials ; but the eye rolled so much as to prevent me from removing it entirely. No in-_ flammation succeeded. In ten days a weak solution of argentum nitratum was dropped into the eye twice a day ; and the remaining portion of the pro- lapsed iris gradually decreased, until it wholly disap- peared. Having left Exeter early in December, I did not again sce Miss Russell until March 1811. The pupil was then transversely oblong, and extended from its natural situation to the cicatrix in the cornea ; the capsule was somewhat wasted, but still occupied a large part of the pupil. On my return from Dublin, November 1811, Miss Russell followed me from Glasgow to Edinburgh, where, assisted by my friend