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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    18 ward coloboma is good, there are circles of diffusion, and it is not quite as good as that of a patient witli a central aud moveable pupil. We shall therefore be guided by circum- stances, and save the iris if we can do so consistently with the security of the patient. We shall now proceed to operation. Before doing so, however, permit me to call your attention to the method of illumination which I always use at this time of year. The light is obtained from an ordinary paraffin lamp, and the rays are concentrated by a lens in the shape of a globe of water—a simple apparatus, which may be used without preparation in any cottage or private house, an ordinary water- bottle, held by an assistant, sufficing for the lens. (Fig. 3.) Fig. 3.
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