The electro-magnet and its employment in ophthalmic surgery : with special reference to the detection and removal of fragments of steel or iron from the interior of the eye / by Simeon Snell.

  • Snell, Simeon, 1851-1909.
Date:
1883
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Credit: The electro-magnet and its employment in ophthalmic surgery : with special reference to the detection and removal of fragments of steel or iron from the interior of the eye / by Simeon Snell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to . APR 21 J92] XbrarX THE ELECTRO-MAGNET AND ITS EMPLOYMENT IN OPHTHALMIC SURGERY Accidents to the eye, from the unfortunate results frequently occasioned, always deserve consideration at the hands of the surgeon. Among these injuries none are more dangerous than those associated with the presence of a foreign body in the interior of the eye- ball ; for if not immediately destructive to vision, by reason of the extent of the damage inflicted, it is not long, as a rule, before inflammatory changes ensue and impair the functions of the globe. Moreover, if to the injury to one organ is added the great danger in which its fellow is placed by the possibility of sym- pathetic ophthalmia, and this even in the class of cases where the foreign body has lain for some, time inside the eye and perhaps become encapsuled, nothing- need be further said as to the importance the treatment of these injuries acquires, nor of the attention which the subject merits, and, in fact, requires at our hands. In the large industrial centres of England, with the extensive works of different kinds and the number of men employed in the various branches of trade, it is