Text-book of ophthalmology . onstantly exudes beneath the conjunctiva, which either takes on agelatinous character in the region of the cicatrix or is bulged out in the formof a circumscribed vesicle resembling a cyst (Fig. 135, h). Following VonGraefe, we give this condition the name of cystoid cicatrization (seepage 222).It is chiefly observed after operations (cataract extraction and iridectomy). 286. (6) Perforating woundsj% of the sclera are followed by vio-lent inflammation whenever in-fection of the wound or the in-terior of the eye has takes place either bymeans of t
Text-book of ophthalmology . onstantly exudes beneath the conjunctiva, which either takes on agelatinous character in the region of the cicatrix or is bulged out in the formof a circumscribed vesicle resembling a cyst (Fig. 135, h). Following VonGraefe, we give this condition the name of cystoid cicatrization (seepage 222).It is chiefly observed after operations (cataract extraction and iridectomy). 286. (6) Perforating woundsj% of the sclera are followed by vio-lent inflammation whenever in-fection of the wound or the in-terior of the eye has takes place either bymeans of the very body whichcauses the injury, it being cov-ered with dirt and thus convey-ing infectious germs, or secon-darily from the fact that theopening in the envelope of theeyeball affords a point of en-trance for germs, especially fromthe conjunctival sac. The in-terior of the eye is uncommonly Fig. 135.—Inclusion of the Iris with Cystoid Cic- j j A i3™*™ susceptible of infection, since itobviously affords a good medium. Cataract by Graefes Peripheral Linear 13 X 1. The section by which the extraction was made cuts in <• the sclera, s, and the for the cultivation of different two the line of junction between cornea, i/, so that by its anterior half it lies in the sclera, 1 • n ^r „^l* ^^„.™j.^ Tea. In tfle aCUteSt by a very thin layer of conjunctiva which, on account „„„„_, „~ • ~ ^,,„„l^^+ i^a^-^^ of the cavity beneath it, looks like a vesicle. The iris by Cases there IS a purulent mflam-
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