. Plexus. ry, sympathetic trouble may begin at anytime from a slight blow, or even without any known cause. That sympathetic trouble may occur a great many years after Injuries of the Eye. 17 the injury was well illustrated by a patient whom I had underobservation for a long time. He had his right eye injured over16 years before I saw him and had an operation on it by a notedoculist. It had shrunken into a small, hard lump, and he said ithad never troubled him. He had tried to wear an artificial eyebut the socket was so badly shrunken from the injury that it wasimpossible for him to do so. He
. Plexus. ry, sympathetic trouble may begin at anytime from a slight blow, or even without any known cause. That sympathetic trouble may occur a great many years after Injuries of the Eye. 17 the injury was well illustrated by a patient whom I had underobservation for a long time. He had his right eye injured over16 years before I saw him and had an operation on it by a notedoculist. It had shrunken into a small, hard lump, and he said ithad never troubled him. He had tried to wear an artificial eyebut the socket was so badly shrunken from the injury that it wasimpossible for him to do so. He had had a mild inflammation ofthe remaining eye for about a year, sufficient to hinder him fromworking part of the time. I found an inflammation of the choroidand ciliary body which would subside under treatment but wouldreturn soon after the treatment was stopped. I did not at firstthink the stump of the injured eye had anything to do with thetrouble, as he never had pain in it, and it was not inflamed or. Cut No. of the lens and ciliarybody. The part of the lens show-ing white is breaking down andnear that point is an exudatefrom the ciliary body. The re-tina is hazy from the inflamma-tion and the cloudiness behindthe lens is an exudate into thevitreous. The ciliary body andiris on the side opposite to theinjury appear about normal. tender to touch when under my observation. After having himunder treatment for several months I saw one day that the stumpwas some inflamed and tender to touch. I immediately advisedremoval of it to which he consented a short time after. Follow-ing this the inflammation subsided and he has had no return ofthe trouble since, a period of over Such a case isparticularly instructive, for it was impossible to tell what hadbeen done to the eye at the time of the the operation on accountof the changes that had taken place in the stump, and also thefact that it had gone nearly 16 years without giving trouble. In cut No. 2 you will see
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