A treatise on the diseases of the eye . out 20 years of age,who had received a severe burn from falling upon a bed of burning coals,by which a great part of the left cheek was entirely destroyed, and acicatrix produced, which, by its contraction, occasioned a complete ever-sion of the inferior pdpebra of that side, and a considerable contractionof the corresponding angle of the mouth. Five months after the accident, January 2d, 1845, he applied for this time the eversion of the lid was complete, its ciliary border beingfirmly adherent to the inferior margin of the orbit, and its infe
A treatise on the diseases of the eye . out 20 years of age,who had received a severe burn from falling upon a bed of burning coals,by which a great part of the left cheek was entirely destroyed, and acicatrix produced, which, by its contraction, occasioned a complete ever-sion of the inferior pdpebra of that side, and a considerable contractionof the corresponding angle of the mouth. Five months after the accident, January 2d, 1845, he applied for this time the eversion of the lid was complete, its ciliary border beingfirmly adherent to the inferior margin of the orbit, and its inferior edgeprojecting upwards towards the globe of the eye. The conjunctiva wasmuch inflamed, so as not only to give the eye an unsightly appearance,but also to render it the source of very considerable pain and incon-venience. To this deformity Prof. B. performed the following operation :—Thepalpebra was first dissected up, so as to be placed in its natural position,by which a wound was left beneath it, an inch and a half in length by. * American Journal of the Medical * Nov. 1S37. 150 AFFECTIONS OF THE EYE-LIDS.
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