Cases of fungus hematodes of the eye : With an attempt to characterize two species of that disease and of cancer of the eye.

  • Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869.
Date:
[1818]
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Credit: Cases of fungus hematodes of the eye : With an attempt to characterize two species of that disease and of cancer of the eye. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    backwards through the left temple, for which she has taken Tinct. Opii. She has become ema- ciated of late. The menstrual discharge has been regular. The right eye is entirely free from dis- ease. She states that her left eye became weak about six years ago, after an attack of measles; that it began to swell about a year since; that six months ago, (the tumour then being as large as a pullefs egg,) her eye still retained the power of vision. Being informed that an opera- tion for the removal of the tumour would be hazardous, and that its ultimate success would be very uncertain, she says she prefers it to the prospect of certain death. March 1th.—The tumour has sensibly increas- ed since the last report: the cornea is more opaque, and the ulcerated portion greater in extent than on the M\ inst.: a lew drops of blood oozed from the part to which the dressings had adhered. An operation having been agreed on in con- sultation of the surgeons, 1 commenced it by a free incision backwards from the external edge of the orbit; from the termination of this incision the scalpel was carried around the lower part of the base of the fungus to the internal canthus, thence under the roof of the orbit to the exter- nal canthus, dividing the palpebral conjunctiva of the upper lid, and leaving the latter untouch- ed. In separating the tumour from the cheek,