The homeopathic practice of surgery : together with operative surgery . SE OF INSTRUMENTS. deficiency of power is in the rectus externus, the internal draw-ing the eye-ball towards the nose. A current of electricity fre-quently passed through the relaxed muscle, with the mechanicalmeans before mentioned, will often obviate the necessity of anoperation. Strabismus is sometimes also caused by a partialopacity of the cornea; of course, an operation would be operation for the relief of this deformity, — or Stra-BOTOMY, — consists in dividing the shortened or permanently con-tracted mus
The homeopathic practice of surgery : together with operative surgery . SE OF INSTRUMENTS. deficiency of power is in the rectus externus, the internal draw-ing the eye-ball towards the nose. A current of electricity fre-quently passed through the relaxed muscle, with the mechanicalmeans before mentioned, will often obviate the necessity of anoperation. Strabismus is sometimes also caused by a partialopacity of the cornea; of course, an operation would be operation for the relief of this deformity, — or Stra-BOTOMY, — consists in dividing the shortened or permanently con-tracted muscle. This being generally the Internal Rectus, wewill describe the process of its division. The patient being seatedand the eye secured by the speculum or otherwise, the sound eyeis to be covered and kept from rolling by gentle but sufficientpressure. The lids and ball of the defective side can be bestfixed with the Wirespring Speculum (Fig. 112), shown upon theeye preparatory to the operation in Fig. 105. (See also Note atthe beginning of next Chapter. Fig. In default of such a means, it is usual to have the upper lidheld up by an assistants fingers, or by a common wire speculumor elevator (Fig. 113), another pair of fingers being required tokeep down the under lid (as shown in Fig. 114). These pre-liminaries adjusted, a double hook (represented separately -Fig. H^. as Fig. 106) is hitched to theconjunctiva, about half waybetween the margin of thecornea and the internal can-thus, the ball then rolled outward by it, and the handle given toan assistant, by whom it is firmly retained in the same position.
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