Clinical Demonstrations on Ophthalmic Subjects (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Clinical Demonstrations on Ophthalmic SubjectsHere, then, we have an eye, which is otherwise useful or capable of being rendered tolerably so, but which is tied down - buried, as it were - under an adherent lid, and rendered immovable. All the contrivances resorted to by surgeons to separate the lids from the globe have proved a mere waste of ingenuity - have, in other words, ended in dis appointment. Impelled by a feeling of perplexity, and a conviction that something might be done to save such eyes - to bring them to the light of day, and restore their mobility - I tried to fill up the lacuna by conjunctiva from the rabbit.The result of my first Operation was submitted to the Glasgow medico-chirurgical Society in December 1872, and at the meeting of the British Medical Association held in Edinburgh in August 1875, I exhibited two cases.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.