Clinical surgeryExtracts from the reports of surgical practice between the years 1860-1876Translated from the original, and edited, with annotations, by CTDent . p mightdamage the eye irretrievably. For large angiomata I find the appli-cation of the galvanic wire very practical; it may be employed in 92 TREATMENT OF ANGIOMA BY GALVANIC WIRE. difiFereut ways. The platinum wire mav be sl)arpened to a needlepoint, and then carried round the base of the tumour. For the firsttime this does very well, but later on the wire softens from the heatand the point becomes blunt. Should the tumour offer res
Clinical surgeryExtracts from the reports of surgical practice between the years 1860-1876Translated from the original, and edited, with annotations, by CTDent . p mightdamage the eye irretrievably. For large angiomata I find the appli-cation of the galvanic wire very practical; it may be employed in 92 TREATMENT OF ANGIOMA BY GALVANIC WIRE. difiFereut ways. The platinum wire mav be sl)arpened to a needlepoint, and then carried round the base of the tumour. For the firsttime this does very well, but later on the wire softens from the heatand the point becomes blunt. Should the tumour offer resistanceat any point the wire cannot be got through it. On the whole itis safer to carry the wire round by means of a long, stout, straightneedle, passing it through the base of the tumour, or else to thrusta fine trocar beneath the growth, and then pass the wire through thecanula. Some bleeding certainly follows, but soon stops when thewire is heated again. In adopting this method the wire should onlybe raised to a red heat; if it be made white hot, it cuts too quicklyand severe hsemorrhage will be the result. Fig. 4.—Mttltiplb Soft Pibko-fattt CASE OF MULTIPLE FIBEO-FATTY TUMOURS. 93 Multiple soft fihro-fatty tumours. {Leoiitiasis, moUuscumlipomatosicm, elej^ltantiasis arahum)} Case.—The patient was 33 years of age, and had suffered from the aboveaffection for thirty-one years. The condition will be best understood by theillustration (Fio;. 4); the rii^ht eye was found to be destroyed—probably frompanophthalmitis. A few similar tumours, varying in size from a pea to a bean,were found on the back and chest. The vision of the left eye was normal, butthe patient was unable to see unless he raised up the folds of the eyelid withhis fingers, or arranged iiis hat so to keep the pendulous massesoutof the operated on him on twenty different occasions. The ultimate result is shownin Fig. g. When he left there was a slight ectropium, and he had notrecovered any pow
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