Eye injuries and their treatment . was accidentally struck on the left eye with a piece ofcoal four weeks before he came to the Ophthalmic Institution. As far ascould be made out, the original injury was very trivial, but within forty-eight hours a sloughy ulcer had formed on the cornea. This was notproperly attended to, and, when the man presented himself at the Hos-pital, the greater part of the cornea was destroyed, Descemets membranealone remaining towards the centre. Perforation of this took place, anda prolapse of iris followed. As it was not possible to save the eye theglobe was enuclea
Eye injuries and their treatment . was accidentally struck on the left eye with a piece ofcoal four weeks before he came to the Ophthalmic Institution. As far ascould be made out, the original injury was very trivial, but within forty-eight hours a sloughy ulcer had formed on the cornea. This was notproperly attended to, and, when the man presented himself at the Hos-pital, the greater part of the cornea was destroyed, Descemets membranealone remaining towards the centre. Perforation of this took place, anda prolapse of iris followed. As it was not possible to save the eye theglobe was enucleated. Fig. 3 illustrates the case of a woman, sixty-six years of age, who had gother right eye scratched by a childs finger nail. Suppurative keratitisfollowed, and sight was lost, but for twenty years thereafter there was nofurther trouble. Then, without any known cause, purulent inflammationreappeared and extended to the deeper parts of the globe. The sufferingwas so acute that the patient readily agreed to enucleation. PLATE III.
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