This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...be freely dropped upon the eyeball. After local anesthesia is produced, a 1 per cent. solution of cocaine is subconjunctivally injected over the insertion of each rectus muscle, after which the circumcorneal incision and the undermining of the conjunctiva can be painlessly accomplished. The muscle ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...be freely dropped upon the eyeball. After local anesthesia is produced, a 1 per cent. solution of cocaine is subconjunctivally injected over the insertion of each rectus muscle, after which the circumcorneal incision and the undermining of the conjunctiva can be painlessly accomplished. The muscle tendons should then be anesthetized by injecting a few drops of a 1 per cent. solution into the capsule of Tenon, just above each tendon, directing the stream along the plane of the muscle and close to the sclera, after which the tendons can be severed from their scleral attachments. A few drops of cocaine should now be injected into the tissues directly around the optic nerve and in a few minutes the nerve can be cut without much pain. Should it be determined to remove an eyeball, several different methods may be employed, viz., enucleation; evisceration; abscission; the insertion of an artificial vitreous within the sclera; the insertion of an artificial ball within the capsule of Tenon; the insertion of an artificial ball within the muscles and conjunctiva; and opticociliary neurotomy or neurectomy. ENUCLEATION. So far as can be ascertained the first scientific attempt at the extirpation, or enucleation, of an eyeball was made by Lange in 1555, who, however, failed to leave a record as to his method of procedure, although he reported his experience. About the first recorded method of enucleation, or "extirpation" as it was called, was described in 1583 by George B_artisch (ophthalmodouleia odor Augcndicnst, 1583), of Kiinigsbriick. i11 Saxony. Until about 1850 eyes were extirpated practically only in such cases as cancers, tumors, fungus hematodes, etc., and the method was rarely employed under any circumstances. Bartisch passed a...
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