Carter reports a case in which a hat-peg 3 3/10 inches long and
about 1/4 inch in diameter (upon one end of which was a knob
nearly 1/2 inch in diameter) was impacted in the orbit for from
ten to twenty days, and during this time the patient was not
aware of the fact. Recovery followed its extraction, the vision
and movements of the eye being unimpaired.
According to the Philosophical Transactions a laborer thrust a
long lath with great violence into the inner canthus of the left
eye of his fellow workman, Edward Roberts. The lath broke off
short, leaving a piece two inches long, 1/2 inch wide, and 1/4
inch thick, in situ. Roberts rode about a mile to the surgery of
Mr. Justinian Morse, who extracted it with much difficulty;
recovery followed, together with restoration of the sight and
muscular action. The lath was supposed to have passed behind the
eyeball. Collette speaks of an instance in which 186 pieces of
glass were extracted from the left orbit, the whole mass weighing
186 Belgian grains. They were blown in by a gust of wind that
broke a pane of glass; after extraction no affection of the brain
or eye occurred. Watson speaks of a case in which a chip of steel
3/8 inch long was imbedded in cellular tissue of the orbit for
four days, and was removed without injury to the eye.
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