A report of the cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, during the year 1838 and 1839 / by Richard Middlemore, Esq.

  • Middlemore, Richard, 1804-1891.
Date:
1841
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Credit: A report of the cases attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary, during the year 1838 and 1839 / by Richard Middlemore, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Fungoid and other tumours, either within the orbit, or within or) upon the eye-ball J Dropsy of the eye-ball 5 Atrophy of the eye-hall 11 Ossification in various parts of the eye-ball 7 Amaurotic affections 106 Strabismus 9 Ptosis 5 Diseases of the lachrymal apparatus 46 Ophthalmia tarsi 83 Lippitudo 11 Hordeolum 13 Ectropium 10 Entropinm 11 Tumours in the eye-lids .'. 26 Inflammation, suppuration, or ulceration of the eye-lids 16 Adhesion of the eye-lid to the eye-ball 7 Wounds and other injuries of the eye and its appendages 100 Miscellaneous affections 278 Number of patients attended :— Males 1065 Females 116* Total 2229 CASE IN WHICH AN OPERATION FOll ARTIFICIAL PUPIL WAS PERFORMED ON AN EYE PREVIOUSLY AFFECTED WITH STAPHYLOMA OF THE CORNEA. In the sixth volume of the Transactions* I related the case of James Shephard, who became my patient at the Eye Infirmary, after haviiii^ left the Birming- ham Hospital, into which he had been admitted in consequence of a severe accident which had seriously injured his face and eyes. When I first saw him, the right eye was entirely collapsed. More than half the lower portion of the left corrjea was extremely opaque and prominently staphylomatous, the pupil * Page 450.