A treatise on the diseases of the eye . auxoir,* of Geneva, who has described it in two * Memoires sur lOrganization de 1 Iris et lOperation de la Pupille artificielle, Paris,1812. Memoires sur les Amputations, [Hydrocele du Cou, * lOrganization de llris ;Geneve, 1825. Observations and cases relating to the Operation for Artificial Pupil;in a Letter from M. Maunoir of Geneva, in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, p. 301. Further Account of the Result of an Operation for iorming an ArtificialPupil; Medico-Chir. Trans., vol. ix. p. 382. 440 FORMATIOX OF AN ARTIFICIAL PUPIL. memoirs. I
A treatise on the diseases of the eye . auxoir,* of Geneva, who has described it in two * Memoires sur lOrganization de 1 Iris et lOperation de la Pupille artificielle, Paris,1812. Memoires sur les Amputations, [Hydrocele du Cou, * lOrganization de llris ;Geneve, 1825. Observations and cases relating to the Operation for Artificial Pupil;in a Letter from M. Maunoir of Geneva, in the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, p. 301. Further Account of the Result of an Operation for iorming an ArtificialPupil; Medico-Chir. Trans., vol. ix. p. 382. 440 FORMATIOX OF AN ARTIFICIAL PUPIL. memoirs. It was approved and strongly recommended by Scarpa* in thelast edition of his Avork on diseases of the eye, from which I have drawnthe following description of it, as being more clear and connected than thatgiven by its author. In order to attain the object proposed, this learned andexpert oculist has had scissors [fig. 683 made of a delicacy and finenesshitherto unequaled in the construction of surgical instruments.! The blades Fk. of the scissors are slightly inclined to the handle, (at an angle of 140°.)The upper blade, or that which is designed to pass through the anteriorchamber of the aqueous humor between the concavity of the cornea andthe iris, terminates in a small button. The lower blade for perforating theiris and advancing along the posterior surface of this membrane, has a verysharp point similar to that of a lancet. The thickness of the two bladesunited does not exceed that of an ordinary fine probe. The mode ofoperating with it, as is practised by Professor Matinoir with great success,and which has been advantageously repeated in this hospital, is as follows: The patient being placed horizontally with his head a little raised, aposition no less commodious in the operation for the extraction of thecataract than the formation of the pupil, and supposing the cornea to beperfectly transparent, and the capsule and lens in the case of cataract tohave been complete
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