. A treatise on the diseases of the eye. Fig. 101. j^i^Jfl. After Miller. After Miller.] As a rule, however, the progress of the staphyloma is very slow and a more or less acute and severe inflammation of the iris and choroidhas existed for some length of time, and its progress has been perhaps ap-parently arrested, it is noticed that the curvature of one portion of the sclerotic is somewhat altered and more promi-[Fig. 102. nent, and its surface traversed by dark, dilated vessels. Gradually and slowly the protrusionincreases, the scleiotic becomes more thinned,and exchanges its
. A treatise on the diseases of the eye. Fig. 101. j^i^Jfl. After Miller. After Miller.] As a rule, however, the progress of the staphyloma is very slow and a more or less acute and severe inflammation of the iris and choroidhas existed for some length of time, and its progress has been perhaps ap-parently arrested, it is noticed that the curvature of one portion of the sclerotic is somewhat altered and more promi-[Fig. 102. nent, and its surface traversed by dark, dilated vessels. Gradually and slowly the protrusionincreases, the scleiotic becomes more thinned,and exchanges its bright lustrous white colorfor a dusky bluish tint. Sometimes the sta-phylomatous bulging is traversed by tendinousglistening trabeculse, forming a kind of frame-work, through the interstices of which thedarker portions bulge out, giving to the wholea faint likeness to a mulberry. [Fig. 101.]The staphyloma may now remain stationaryfor a time, and the inflammatory sym25tomsdisajjpear. Then an inflammatory exacerba-tion supervenes, the eye becomes painful,
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