Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids, with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and the description of a series of new and improved operations for the cure of the different species of cataract / [Sir William Rawson].

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827
Date:
1814
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Credit: Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids, with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and the description of a series of new and improved operations for the cure of the different species of cataract / [Sir William Rawson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    My CHAP. Ii. SECTION I. ON CONTRACTED OR OBLITERATED PUPIL: A CONCISE HISTORY OF CHESELDEN’S OPERATION FOR ARTIFICIAL PUPIL, AND THE OPINIONS ENTERTAINED OF IT BY VARIOUS EMINENT AUTHORS. No department of surgery can be deenied of greater importance than that which has for its object the re- storation of sight to the blind. Hence those diseases which affect the organs of vision, and the adjacent parts, have in every age deservedly attracted a large share of the attention of surgical practitioners. Ne- vertheless, strange as it may appear, no operation for the relief of those persons labouring under a closure of the pupil, seems to have been attempted before the time of Cheselden. This celebrated surgeon has de- scribed his mode of operating nearly as follows, and illustrated it by plates, in the thirty-fifth volume of the Philosophical Transactions, page 451, pub- lished in the year 1735, The eye-lids being held Open by a speculum, he theti took a narrow and single-edged knife, and passing it through the sclerotica as in couching, he afterwards thrust it for-