. A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ . of a girl, a pa-tient of Mr. Astley Cooper, in Guys disease was accompanied with glandularenlargements, and of several months standing. Fig. 6. is the eye of an infant, aged eightmonths, likewise a patient of Mr. Cooper, inGuys Hospital, in whom the disease was con-genital. See page 205. Neither of these cases was the subject of anoperation, and I have not been able to obtainany information inspecting them since theyqui
. A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment : to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ . of a girl, a pa-tient of Mr. Astley Cooper, in Guys disease was accompanied with glandularenlargements, and of several months standing. Fig. 6. is the eye of an infant, aged eightmonths, likewise a patient of Mr. Cooper, inGuys Hospital, in whom the disease was con-genital. See page 205. Neither of these cases was the subject of anoperation, and I have not been able to obtainany information inspecting them since theyquitted the Hospital. The disease in the infant,from the central position of the cornea, and fromthe enormous protrusion and equal figure ofthe ball, was supposed to be seated in the or-bitar appendages. It is remarkable that thechild was well nourished and apparently sufferedlittle constitutional disturbance. The right eyewas sound. This engraving was reduced from a drawingof the size of life upon a scale of 25 to 36. A proptosis or protrusion of the ball conveysa delusive idea of the increased magnitude of the - //y. /. /y. .•///, /: / ^ /> £& 2. w. O a Hwmscn ? Ionian EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 411 organ. I have occasionally met with cases ofproptosis to such an extent as to occasion amorbid change upon the cornea, with a varicosestate of the vessels of the conjunctiva; and withothers in which, although the cornea remainedclear, the vision was materially deranged, wherethe cause of the protrusion was altogether ob-scure, and the progress of the disease had beenso slow as to occupy a period of several years. In these cases both eyes are equally affected;they are attended with a distressing degree ofdeformity, obtuse pain in the forehead, andother occasional signs of determination of bloodto the head. It is probably a morbid increaseof the adeps contained in the orbit, obstructingits circulation, as well as protruding the disease, when acute, is of a different andm
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