Eye injuries and their treatment . fE Injuries and their TreatmentA Maitland Ramsay, M D James MacLehose & Sons,Publishers, Glasgow CONTUSION INJURIES 49 them is of the slightest use in hastening the naturalprocess of absorption. If it be very important to getrid of the disfigurement, the expedient of painting theparts should be resorted to. The application of leechesis not to be recommended, neither is puncture of theskin ; and the practice of sucking out the effused bloodis objectionable, and not without danger: I have knownit cause a chancre of the eyelid. When the injury is more severe, th
Eye injuries and their treatment . fE Injuries and their TreatmentA Maitland Ramsay, M D James MacLehose & Sons,Publishers, Glasgow CONTUSION INJURIES 49 them is of the slightest use in hastening the naturalprocess of absorption. If it be very important to getrid of the disfigurement, the expedient of painting theparts should be resorted to. The application of leechesis not to be recommended, neither is puncture of theskin ; and the practice of sucking out the effused bloodis objectionable, and not without danger: I have knownit cause a chancre of the eyelid. When the injury is more severe, the bones at theinner side of the orbit are fractured, and communicationwith the frontal and ethmoidal sinuses is opened up,thereby allowing air to enter the surrounding cellulartissues—emphysema of the eyelids. This is usuallyaccompanied by epistaxis, and the nature of the softswelling is readily distinguished by its crackling tothe touch, and increasing rapidly in size when thepatient blows his nose. Here again the best meth
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