Rupture of the Eyeball.--Jessop mentions the case of a child of
eight who suffered a blow on the eye from a fall against a
bedpost, followed by compound rupture of the organ. The wound in
the sclerotic was three or four lines in length, and the rent in
the conjunctiva was so large that it required three sutures. The
chief interest in this case was the rapid and complete recovery
of vision.
Adler reports a case of fracture of the superior maxillary in
which the dislocated bone-fragment of the lower orbital border,
through pressure on the inferior maxillary and counter pressure
on the skull, caused rupture of the conjunctiva of the left eye.
Serious Sequelae of Orbital Injuries.--In some instances injuries
primarily to the orbit either by extension or implication of the
cerebral contents provoke the most serious issues. Pointed
instruments thrust into the orbital cavity may by this route
reach the brain. There is a record of death caused by a wound of
a cavernous sinus through the orbit by the stem of a
tobacco-pipe. Bower saw a woman at the Gloucester Infirmary who
had been stabbed in the eye by the end of an umbrella. There was
profuse hemorrhage from the nostrils and left eye, but no signs
indicative of its origin.
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