. The American journal of the medical sciences. dense semi-elastic mass below the supra-orbital ridge ; andto this she readily consented. Accordingly, on March 30th, in presence of Drs. Thomson, Harlan,and Schell, and Mr. Currie, medical student, she was etherized by , and I made an incision obliquely through the skin just belowand parallel with the eyebrow. The tumour was very soon reached, andby means of the fingers and knife-handle enucleated. It seemed to havebeen attached only slightly, somewhere near the back part of the roof ofthe orbit. The wound was closed with fine silve
. The American journal of the medical sciences. dense semi-elastic mass below the supra-orbital ridge ; andto this she readily consented. Accordingly, on March 30th, in presence of Drs. Thomson, Harlan,and Schell, and Mr. Currie, medical student, she was etherized by , and I made an incision obliquely through the skin just belowand parallel with the eyebrow. The tumour was very soon reached, andby means of the fingers and knife-handle enucleated. It seemed to havebeen attached only slightly, somewhere near the back part of the roof ofthe orbit. The wound was closed with fine silver-wire sutures, a smalldrainage tube being left at its outer angle; and a water dressing wasapplied. For a few days she Avas much annoyed by a cough, which seemed to bea re-development of her previous bronchitis, perhaps the effect of the in-halation of ether. Some trouble was given also by eversion of the lowerlid, kept up by spasm of the orbicularis muscle ; but this was overcome bythe careful application of a compress and adhesive 128 Davis, Minute Anatomy of the Liver. [July To-day, the forty-fifth since the operation, the eye is very nearly in itsnormal position, and follows the movements of its fellow accurately. has at my request examined the eye, and informs me that hefinds it, corrected with a glass of 5 dioi)trics, to possess an acuity of vision of I— = ?. There is slight astigmatism, which might be more closely corrected by a cylindrical glass. Vision is binocular. Hence it may bejustly claimed that tliere is no loss of sight; and with suitable glasses shewould now be able to read or work as she did thirty yeais ago. Tliewound has left very little scar; the greatly redundant skin in tlie upperlid has been much reduced by shrinkage, which process is still going on,so that she feels herself daily lifting the lid better and better. The tumour, which was about the size of a hens egg, flattened aboveand below, was submitted to Dr. Morris Longstreth
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