The Collected Papers Of Sir W Bowman V 1

Author : Sir William Bowman
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230030159
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Papers of Sir W. Bowman Volume 2 written by Sir William Bowman and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...is gone by slough, and the iris and lens are exposed, forming the front of the globe. The iris is covered with a thin film of yellow exudation in the outer two-thirds of its breadth; the inner third, round the pupil, retaining its natural dark brown aspect. The pupil (O) is occupied by the front of the lens, which has its-natural transparency. The iris is conical, the pupillary border being projected by the lens, which pushes forwards from behind. It is singular that the lens has not escaped. Notwithstanding the transparency of the lens, she has no perception of light with that eye. She has no pain in the ball, only in the brow. Delicate pressure on the globe moves the iris gently on the lens, and shows that the two structures are but loosely adherent, or simply in contact. She was admitted on the 6th: the lens did not appear to have escaped. The same system was pursued. The iris became gradually covered with a thicker, and at length vascular, layer of soft lymph, obscuring the true texture. 'At first the pupillary border was simply fringed with yellow lymph; this lymph became red with vessels, and then threw out more on its border, and so on till the pupil (or rather the capsule of the lens behind it) was covered over with organized membrane, only difiering from the rest in not having the dark iris behind it. By the 23rd October the whole front of the globe had become flatter, and she suflered hardly any pain. Nov. 2nd.--The new front to the iris is contracting in circumference. The pupil is marked by a dark spot, into which sinks a small vein, formed from vessels of the new tissue, which are supplied by one of the anterior ciliary arteries. No pain. 9th.--The new covering of the iris is rapidly contracting. The front is fiat, and...