Transactions . terference seemed so urgent,an immediate broad upward iridectomy was made, without anyunfavorable complication except a slight oozing of blood fromthe enlarged vessels of the iris stroma. Next day the woundhad healed. Forty-eight hours later the eye was perfectly quiet. There Io6 Oliver : A Clinical and Microscopical Study of was a large, broad, clean-cut peripheral coloboma. The corneawas much clearer, the anterior chamber was re-established, andthe hemorrhage had almost disappeared. The patient couldreadil)^ count fingers at six metres distance, and voluntarilyasserted that hi
Transactions . terference seemed so urgent,an immediate broad upward iridectomy was made, without anyunfavorable complication except a slight oozing of blood fromthe enlarged vessels of the iris stroma. Next day the woundhad healed. Forty-eight hours later the eye was perfectly quiet. There Io6 Oliver : A Clinical and Microscopical Study of was a large, broad, clean-cut peripheral coloboma. The corneawas much clearer, the anterior chamber was re-established, andthe hemorrhage had almost disappeared. The patient couldreadil)^ count fingers at six metres distance, and voluntarilyasserted that his field of vision had become larger. Pain hadalmost gone, and he was enabled to enjoy his nights rest. Both the local and general conditions steadily improved underappropriate treatment until the 25th of the month, when he wasenabled to see the fifty diopter type at one metres distance, andhe had retained the fields taken on the nth of the month, asshown in Fig. 8. Intra-ocular tension had now fallen to Fir,. 7. — Right candle-field when patient firstseen. Fig. S. • Right white and red fields after firstiridectomy. On the 18th of April, with a central vision of /^ which couldnot be bettered by lenses, a large central field for red and white,no pain, and a quiet, properly-toned eye, he was sent back tohis physician with directions for the local employment of ese-rine, etc. Under this treatment he did well all summer. In the earlyfall, however, he found that the right vision began again to per-sistently fail until he was only able to distinguish light. On the 16th of November of the same year he was againbrought to the hospital. The appearance of the eyes had mate-rially changed. Though still blind in the left eye, the right fieldof vision was reduced, as shown in Fig. 9, to a small heart-shaped area of faint light-perception in the lower outer periph- Glaucoma Associated zvith Intra-Octilar Hemorrhages. 107 ery. The left pupil was irregularly dilated to at least sev
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