120.
TIrEOBALD: Ain Unusually Longw Eye-Lashi.
probably of capsule, lens. matter, and plastic exudation, all of which had undergone degenerative changes. June 22. Vision =- with + 1 Reads Jae-ger- No. I with 22 + + June 26. Discharged wearing the above spectacles. This case scarcely needs any comment. The completeness of. the history would make it interesting even if the result had not been so unexpectedly good. In all my experience, extending over nearly twenty*years, I never before saw an eye, 'whose vision had been reduced to perception of light by sympathetic inflammation, have the sight restored to 2 by operative interference.
AN UNUSUALLY LONG EYE-LASH. BY DR. SAMUEL THEOBALD.
The other day a patient came to the Baltimore Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital complaining of some irritation about the eye. I was struck with the length Vf one single eye-lash in the upper lid. This I removed, and now exhibit. It is fully three-fourths of an inch long. The remainder of the ciliae were of the ordinary length.
The society then adjourned. The following Discussion, having been accidentally omitted from its proper place, should follow that on page 80: DR. B. ALEX. RANDALL, Phila. -As bearing upon the question of myopia in growing cataract, the incomplete history of a case may have some points of interest. The patient was a lady 50 years of age, seen four years ago. There were well-marked striae in the periphery of the lens, with hypermetropia of 1.25 D. in the left eye; while reading glasses of the same strength for each eye and the patient's statements gave pretty strong evidence that both eyes had been alike; but that there had been recent and rapid change. She at this time had myopia of 1.25 D.
TIrEOBALD: Ain Unusually Longw Eye-Lashi.
probably of capsule, lens. matter, and plastic exudation, all of which had undergone degenerative changes. June 22. Vision =- with + 1 Reads Jae-ger- No. I with 22 + + June 26. Discharged wearing the above spectacles. This case scarcely needs any comment. The completeness of. the history would make it interesting even if the result had not been so unexpectedly good. In all my experience, extending over nearly twenty*years, I never before saw an eye, 'whose vision had been reduced to perception of light by sympathetic inflammation, have the sight restored to 2 by operative interference.
AN UNUSUALLY LONG EYE-LASH. BY DR. SAMUEL THEOBALD.
The other day a patient came to the Baltimore Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital complaining of some irritation about the eye. I was struck with the length Vf one single eye-lash in the upper lid. This I removed, and now exhibit. It is fully three-fourths of an inch long. The remainder of the ciliae were of the ordinary length.
The society then adjourned. The following Discussion, having been accidentally omitted from its proper place, should follow that on page 80: DR. B. ALEX. RANDALL, Phila. -As bearing upon the question of myopia in growing cataract, the incomplete history of a case may have some points of interest. The patient was a lady 50 years of age, seen four years ago. There were well-marked striae in the periphery of the lens, with hypermetropia of 1.25 D. in the left eye; while reading glasses of the same strength for each eye and the patient's statements gave pretty strong evidence that both eyes had been alike; but that there had been recent and rapid change. She at this time had myopia of 1.25 D.
