The suffering was very severe, and he passed
a wretched night, constantly feeling 'something in his eye.'
"The next morning, the trouble continuing, he came to me for
relief. Upon examination of the lid, no opening could be made out
where the sting had penetrated, and a minute inspection of the
conjunctival surface with a good glass failed to reveal any
foreign substance. Cleansing the lid thoroughly, and carefully
inspecting with a lens under strong light, a minute dark point
was made out about the center of the lid. Feeling that this might
be the point of the sting, I had recourse to several expedients
for its removal, but without success. Finally, with a fine knife,
I succeeded in cutting down by the side of the body and tilting
it out. Examination with a 1/5 inch objective confirmed my
opinion that it was the point of the bee-sting.
"The barbed formation of the point explains how, under the
stroking with the finger, it was forced through the dense tarsal
cartilage and against the cornea of the eye."
There is a story told in La Medecine Moderne of a seamstress of
Berlin who was in the habit of allowing her dog to lick her face.
She was attacked with a severe inflammation of the right eye,
which had to be enucleated, and was found full of tenia
echinococcus, evidently derived from the dog's tongue.
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