Journal of ophthalmology, otology and laryngology . Fig. i. lid was united to the eyeball, at the point of injury, by inflammatoryadhesions, which I separated. The anterior chamber was full ofhemorrhagic effusion. There was pain in the eyes and head. His temperature was ioo°. Four or five X-ray pictures were made of the head, three ofwhich are here submitted, from the right side, left side and a frontalview. The true extent of the injury was here clearly seen. The whole 690 Perforating Gunshot Wounds of the Eye. face, head and neck, as well as the eyes, were loaded with forty shot w
Journal of ophthalmology, otology and laryngology . Fig. i. lid was united to the eyeball, at the point of injury, by inflammatoryadhesions, which I separated. The anterior chamber was full ofhemorrhagic effusion. There was pain in the eyes and head. His temperature was ioo°. Four or five X-ray pictures were made of the head, three ofwhich are here submitted, from the right side, left side and a frontalview. The true extent of the injury was here clearly seen. The whole 690 Perforating Gunshot Wounds of the Eye. face, head and neck, as well as the eyes, were loaded with forty shot were easily counted, seven in the neck, an amplesupply to the nose, face, jaws and forehead, as well as four shotwhich could be made out in the brain itself and eight in upper leftchest. This latter was well shown in a stereoscopic X-ray picture,which is probably the most satisfying and positive method of intra-cranial Fig. 2. I submit to you here this stereoscopic picture, which clearlydemonstrates its value. A glance at these reproductions of the X-raynegatives will also show shot in the retro-orbital regions. The shell used held from 125 to 150 shot. The wonder is that theman lived to tell the tale. No attempt was made to remove any of the shot, except one ortwo superficial bodies in the nose. Atrop. sulph. was used to keep the 691 James A. Campbell. pupils as fully dilated as possible. A boric acid and non-alcoholictincture of calendula solution was dropped in the eyes every hourfor the local conjunctival condition. The patient was kept quiet in asubdued light. His diet was regulated. As for other treatment, hewas put under a watchful waiting, but from the severe nature ofhis injuries, the treatment adopted was directed more to the externalinflammation. Several internal remedies were given in turn, as thesymptoms seemed to indicate. His temperature rapidly went down,
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