Thirty months after the
accident the patient had perfect vision, and the eye had never in
the slightest way discommoded him.
Bodkin mentions the case of a woman of sixty who fell on the key
in a door and completely avulsed her eye. In von Graefe's Archiv
there is a record of a man of seventy-five who suffered complete
avulsion of the eye by a cart-wheel passing over his head.
Verhaeghe records complete avulsion of the eye caused by a man
falling against the ring of a sharp-worn key. Hamill describes
the case of a young girl whose conjunctiva was pierced by one of
the rests of an ordinary gas-bracket. Being hooked at one of its
extremities the iron became entangled in either the inferior
oblique or external rectus muscles, and completely avulsed the
eyeball upon the cheek. The real damage could not be estimated,
as the patient never returned after the muscle was clipped off
close to its conjunctival insertion. Calhoun mentions an instance
of a little Esquimaux dog whose head was seized between the jaws
of a large Newfoundland with such force as to press the left
eyeball from the socket. The ball rested on the cheek, held by
the taut optic nerve; the cornea was opaque. The ball was
carefully and gently replaced, and sight soon returned to the
eye.
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