Report of the cases attended during the year 1837 / by R. Middlemore.

Date:
[1838?]
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Credit: Report of the cases attended during the year 1837 / by R. Middlemore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The parents of the boy have both a light com- plexion, and possess the same constitutional charac- ters as their child, but they appear to be healthy, and have other children who are strong and hearty. They can give no account of the cause and origin of the complaint in their child’s eye, and are sure that he has received no severe blow upon the part. Left Eye.—Slight intolerance of light, but other- wise healthy. Right Eye.—Cornea nebulous, and slightly un- even, as in some cases of corneitis. Iris almost in contact with the cornea, and interspersed with large red vessels, which appear to connect it with the cornea through the medium of lymph which is de- posited throughout its texture, and in patches upon its surface. Its structure is as though it had been macerated, and is otherwise changed. The pupil is not distinguishable. The conjunctiva is tumid, many very large vessels exist in its texture, and in that of the sclerotica. At the upper and also at the nasal side of the eye-ball, a whitish prominence may be noticed, as though matter had been deposited within the globe, had ruptured the sclerotica, and had pushed before it the extensible conjunctiva. The patient is the subject of severe pain from, appa- rently, tension of the globe. Conceiving the child to be suffering from scrofulous deposition within the eye-ball, I adopted every measure calculated to sooth his present, uneasiness, and intended to open the lyyiger of the tumours on the following day. July 8.—The tumour has given way, and there is now exposed a dirty, whitish, and fibrous-looking substance, a good deal resembling the solid curdy