Lectures on diseases of the eye / by Charles Bell Taylor.

  • Bell Taylor
Date:
1888
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Credit: Lectures on diseases of the eye / by Charles Bell Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by ophthalmic surgeons both at home and abroad. They call it a modified Graefe, but it is really the operation I described at that time, Graefe's original method having been so com- pletely abandoned that it is now popularly said that nothing remains of it but the knife. I have also endeavoured in certain cases to preserve the pupil, while securing at the same time the advantages of an iridectomy, by excising only the periphery of the iris, leaving the sphincter untouched and free in the anterior chamber—an operation which possesses many advan- tages both optical and testhetic, but which is rather difficult to perform. I have here a patient, a lady seventy-five years of age, on whom I operated last week in this way. When the upper lid is in its natural position, the eye, as you see, looks perfect (see Fig. 1); but when the lid is raised the coloboma in the periphery of the iris is revealed (see Fig. 2). Let us see now, gentlemen, en resume, what the last twenty years have done for us. Graefe discovers, or thinks he discovers, that the bruised iris is the sole cause of disaster; Fig. 1. Mooren cuts the Gordian knot by excising the portion likely to be injured; Schufte follows with iridectomy scoop and small incision; Graefe adopts a linear incision entirely outside the cornea ; I propose a small flap in the corneo-sclerotic junction ;
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