The eye was not lost, and opacity of the lower
part of the cornea alone resulted. Cold water and purging
constituted the treatment.
It is said a that an old soldier of one of Napoleon's armies had
a musket-ball removed from his left orbit after twenty-four
years' lodgment. He was struck in the orbit by a musket-ball, but
as at the same time a companion fell dead at his side he inferred
that the bullet rebounded from his orbit and killed his comrade.
For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains
and partial exophthalmos of the left eye. After removal of the
ball the eye partially atrophied.
Warren reports a case of a man of thirty-five whose eyeball was
destroyed by the explosion of a gun, the breech-pin flying off
and penetrating the head. The orbit was crushed; fourteen months
afterward the man complained of soreness on the hard palate, and
the whole breech-pin, with screw attached, was extracted. The
removal of the pin was followed by fissure of the hard palate,
which, however, was relieved by operation. The following is an
extract of a report by Wenyon of Fatshan, South China:--
"Tang Shan, Chinese farmer, thirty-one years of age, was injured
in the face by the bursting of a shot-gun.
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