Eye injuries and their treatment . PENETRATING WOUNDS 67 the latter is probably the more prudent course, for verysoon the base of the prolapse becomes surrounded bya line of white inflammatory exudation, which by andby contracts, and forms a firm constriction. At a laterperiod its surface is coated with new-formed tissue, andit is, by cicatricial changes, flattened against the corneaand held there securely under a white scar, towardswhich the pupil is displaced. That is Natures methodof cure; and on the whole the results are , should several days have passed before surgicalt
Eye injuries and their treatment . PENETRATING WOUNDS 67 the latter is probably the more prudent course, for verysoon the base of the prolapse becomes surrounded bya line of white inflammatory exudation, which by andby contracts, and forms a firm constriction. At a laterperiod its surface is coated with new-formed tissue, andit is, by cicatricial changes, flattened against the corneaand held there securely under a white scar, towardswhich the pupil is displaced. That is Natures methodof cure; and on the whole the results are , should several days have passed before surgicaltreatment can be begun, and the iris be glued byexudation to the lips of the wound, interference is likelyto do harm rather than good. The forcible breakingdown of the adhesions which have been formed be-tween the two injured structures would be the openingof a new path for the entrance of germs, and mightlead not only to the loss of the injured eye, but alsoto the destruction of its fellow from sympathetic inflam-mation. There are
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