A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ . ???. Eng* by XMLa/mll. Zorufarh, Juilis-AalWO. by M^Q^ Orm&, St JSraim,. EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 419 This engraving was reduced from a drawingof the size of life, upon a scale of 25 to 36. A proptosis or protrusion of the ball conveysa delusive idea of the increased magnitude of theorgan. I have occasionally met with cases ofproptosis to such an extent as to occasion amorbid change upon the cornea, with a varicoses
A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ . ???. Eng* by XMLa/mll. Zorufarh, Juilis-AalWO. by M^Q^ Orm&, St JSraim,. EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 419 This engraving was reduced from a drawingof the size of life, upon a scale of 25 to 36. A proptosis or protrusion of the ball conveysa delusive idea of the increased magnitude of theorgan. I have occasionally met with cases ofproptosis to such an extent as to occasion amorbid change upon the cornea, with a varicosestate of the vessels of the conjunctiva; and withothers, in which, although the cornea remainedclear, the vision was materially deranged, wherethe cause of the protrusion was altogether ob-scure, and the progress of the disease had beenso slow as to occupy a period of several years. In these cases both eyes are equally affected ;they are attended with a distressing degree ofdeformity, obtuse pain in the forehead, and other been thrown up on the sloughing of the cornea. In the casejust referred to, this haematoid fungus was of the size of asmall orange, and
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