Transactions . FlG. I. Fig. 2. ity was freely movable around this point of attachment. Afterthe removal of this piece of bone, which was easily done, Icompleted the extirpation of the remainder of the growth,leaving no part of it behind, so far as I could see, except theflaps of skin. As soon as the hemorrhage, which was slight,had ceased, I retroverted the lower flap and carried its edge,with that of the upper eyeball flap, by means of suitably placedsutures, down into the lower retrotarsal space and fixed both ofthem in this position by pressing the sutures downwards beneaththe skin of the c
Transactions . FlG. I. Fig. 2. ity was freely movable around this point of attachment. Afterthe removal of this piece of bone, which was easily done, Icompleted the extirpation of the remainder of the growth,leaving no part of it behind, so far as I could see, except theflaps of skin. As soon as the hemorrhage, which was slight,had ceased, I retroverted the lower flap and carried its edge,with that of the upper eyeball flap, by means of suitably placedsutures, down into the lower retrotarsal space and fixed both ofthem in this position by pressing the sutures downwards beneaththe skin of the cheek for half an inch and then bringing themoutside and tying them. The flaps healed in this position andultimately the appearance was that of a dense leucoma of thelower and inner part of the cornea, a cicatricial covering of thecorresponding portion of the eyeball, and a cicatricial-lookingedge of the lower lid at its inner third, and an absence, ofOph.—8 580 NoRKiS : Persistent Pnpillmy Membrane. course, h
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