Eye injuries and their treatment . Injuries Ar4D their TREATME^A Maitland Ramsay, M D. James MacLehose a Sons,Publishers, Glasgow CHAPTER IV. SERPIGINOUS ULCER OF THE CORNEA. Associated with the presence of the pneumococcus isa form of ulceration of the cornea to which the nameserpiginous ulcer has been given. (Plate V., Fig. i ;and Plate VI., Fig. i.) Although one of the mostdangerous diseases of the eye, it usually follows a verytrivial injury. A miner or a stone-breaker gets hiseye struck by a piece of coal or stone, but so littledoes he think of it that he continues at his work; amother wh
Eye injuries and their treatment . Injuries Ar4D their TREATME^A Maitland Ramsay, M D. James MacLehose a Sons,Publishers, Glasgow CHAPTER IV. SERPIGINOUS ULCER OF THE CORNEA. Associated with the presence of the pneumococcus isa form of ulceration of the cornea to which the nameserpiginous ulcer has been given. (Plate V., Fig. i ;and Plate VI., Fig. i.) Although one of the mostdangerous diseases of the eye, it usually follows a verytrivial injury. A miner or a stone-breaker gets hiseye struck by a piece of coal or stone, but so littledoes he think of it that he continues at his work; amother while nursing and playing with her child receivesa tiny scratch on the cornea from the infants fingernail; an artisan, with a fire in his eye, gets the cornealepithelium abraded by the clumsy attempts of a com-panion to remove the foreign body with the point ofhis pocket-knife. Such accidents are most trivial inthemselves, involving only a breach of the cornealepithelium, and yet, if the wound become infectedby the pneumococcus, the
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