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reports a case in which a foreign body was deeply imbedded in the
orbit for six weeks, and was removed with subsequent recovery.
Chisholm has seen a case in which for five weeks a fly was
imbedded in the culdesac between the lower lid and the eyeball.
Foreign bodies are sometimes contained in the eyeball for many
years. There is an instance on record in which a wooden splinter,
five mm. long and two mm. broad, remained in the eye forty-seven
years. It was extracted, with the lens in which it was lodged, to
relieve pain and other distressing symptoms. Snell reports a case
in which a piece of steel was imbedded and encapsulated in the
ciliary process twenty-nine years without producing sympathetic
irritation of its fellow, but causing such pain as to warrant
enucleation of this eye. Gunning speaks of a piece of thorn 5/8
inch long, imbedded in the left eyeball of an old man for six
years, causing total loss of vision; he adds that, after its
removal, some improvement was noticed.
Williams mentions a stone-cutter whose left eye was put out by a
piece of stone. Shortly after this his right eye was wounded by a
knife, causing traumatic cataract, which was extracted by Sir
William Wilde, giving the man good sight for twelve years, after
which iritis attacked the right eye and produced a false membrane
over the pupil so that the man could not work.
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