g., being reported by Knies. Silex also reports such a
case and reviews the reported cases, 25 in number, in ten of
which cataract ensued. In the Annual of the Universal Medical
Sciences, 1888, there is a report of seven cases of retinal
injury with central scotoma, amblyopia, etc., in Japanese medical
students, caused by observation of the sun in eclipse.
In discussing the question of electric-light injuries of the eyes
Gould reviews the literature of the subject and epitomizes the
cases reported up to that time. They numbered 23. No patient was
seriously or permanently injured, and none was in a person who
used the electric light in a proper manner as an illuminant. All
were in scientific investigators or workmen about the light, who
approached it too closely or gazed at it too long and without the
colored protecting spectacles now found necessary by such
workers.
Injuries to the Ear.--The folly of the practice of boxing
children's ears, and the possible disastrous results subsequent
to this punishment, are well exemplified throughout medical
literature. Stewart quotes four cases of rupture of the tympanum
from boxing the ears, and there is an instance of a boy of eight,
who was boxed on the ear at school, in whom subsequent
brain-disease developed early, and death followed.
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