Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations . of age. It is rapid in its progress, andpresents characters which cannot be mistaken for cataract. Thetumour which projects throughthe pupils is not only opake, butirregular on its surface, and per-haps there are vessels seen rami-fying upon it. It appears floc-culent on the exterior, it comesrapidly forward towards the an-terior chamber, then falls on thecornea, this gives way, and thena fungus appears. Here aredrawings representing the dis-ease both in the early and latterstages. Sometimes the fungus
Lectures on the operations of surgery : and on diseases and accidents requiring operations . of age. It is rapid in its progress, andpresents characters which cannot be mistaken for cataract. Thetumour which projects throughthe pupils is not only opake, butirregular on its surface, and per-haps there are vessels seen rami-fying upon it. It appears floc-culent on the exterior, it comesrapidly forward towards the an-terior chamber, then falls on thecornea, this gives way, and thena fungus appears. Here aredrawings representing the dis-ease both in the early and latterstages. Sometimes the fungusassumes an enormous size, theglands of the neck become in-volved, and they also present afrightfully diseased aspect. Lit-tle good can be done by surgicalinterference ; its progress cannotbe checked by internal means;if the bulb of the eye be cut out there is a very great probability ofthe disease returning. Sometimes from the first the optic nerve isaffected, and the disease goes back into the cavity of the there are some tumours of the bulb of the eye which can be Fig. 116 AFFECTIONS OF THE EYE. taken away with perfect propriety—tumours of a melanotic charac-ter. I have repeatedly removed them without the disease they are superficial, occurring only over the surface ofthe conjunctiva, and they can be taken away with the bulb of theeye. The extirpation of the eye, although it is an operation in themajority of cases not promising much to the patient, may, in someinstances, very properly be had recourse to, and the disease willnot return afterwards. LECTURE IV. EXTIRPATION OF THE EYE.—DISEASES OF THE LACHRYMAL PASSAGES.— FISTULA LACHRYMALIS. —CATARACT. —EXTRACTION OF FOREIGNBODIES FROM THE NOSTRILS AND EARS. —OBSTRUCTIONS OF THENASAL DUCT.—POLYPI. EXTIRPATION OF THE EYE. In the last lecture I spoke of various diseases of the eyeball. Incases where disease commences within the bulb, and is of a ma-lignant character, or where it i
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