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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    from. the-Infirmary ;. but as.soon.as he began to use exercise, the painful symptoms again recurred, which were relieved as before, by the patient keeping con- stantly in bed. It was more than five. months from the, operation before the nucleus was entirely ab- sorbed ; since which, however, he has been free from ' uneasiness, and sees equally well with. both eyes. CASE XXXVIL. Mk. ae a surgeon, of Birmingham, about 60. years.of age, applied to me at Bath, to perform an operation for cataract in his right. eye. I found he laboured under that large and dark-coloured species which, as I previously told him, would re- quire a considerable length of. time to dissolve. “About, the middle of January, 181], in presence of his son, who is also\a surgeon, I cut up as much, of tha; anterior part. of the cataract as was practi~ cable, and, placed. the, fragments in. the anterior _ chamber. Some inflammation followed, which was. remoyed. by the, usual means. .. In six. weeks the, detached. pieces being whally dissolved, 1 repeated. | ; rm