Image from page 411 of "The American encyclopedia and dictionary of ophthalmology Edited by Casey A. Wood, assisted by a large staff of collaborators" (1913)
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Authors: Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: Chicago : Cleveland Press
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va ; and optico-ciliaryneurotomy or neurectomy. ENUCLE.\TION. So far as can be ascertained the first scientific attempt at the extir-pation, or enucleation, of an eyeball was made by Lange in 1555, who, 4:?!»2 ENUCLEATION OF THE EYE AND ITS SUBSTITUTES however, f;iil<(l to leave a record as to his method of procedure,although he r(i)oi-te(l liis expei-ieiice. About the first recorded methodof (iiuch-atiou, or extirpatiou as it was called, was described iu1583 by George Bartisch {Ophthalmodoulria oder Augendicnst, 158.3),of Koni»sbriick. in Saxony. Tntil about 1850 eyes were extirpatedpractically oidy in such cases as cancers, tumors, fungus hematodes,etc., and the method was rarely employed under any circumstances,l^artisch passed a stron^r needle and thread throusrh the eyeball andthen while making traction on the thread and eyeball, passed behindthe eye a sliar]) knife, or spoon, and scooj)ed and cnt away the globefrom all its attacliments. Before permanently adopting the spoon
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The Kxtiriiatioii Mothod of Bartisch. knife, however, he lirst experiment<(l with a small ra/.or-shaped knifewith which he severed the eye from its orbit;. 1 attachments. The opera-tion was so dreadful that Guthrie, in his woi-k on the eye published iu1823, mentions the fact that Bartolini endeavored to mitigate itsseverity by pulling out a cancerous eye by hooks, a mild procedure,followed in three days by the death of the patient in convulsions. Some of Bartischs followers, including Fabrici de Ililden {Obstr-ration. Chirurg., 1646), who wrote on the subject in 1646, used adouble-edged knife, instead of a spoon, after the conjunctiva had beenseparated from the bulb by what is known as a circumcorneal incision.This method was used without many variations for years until Louisproposed, according to Rowley {DLsfas(s f ih< E)j() in 1790, as asubstitute for the knife, the use of flat, blunt, cui-ved scis.«;ors andhooked forcei)s. ENUCLEATION OF THE EYE AND ITS SUBSTITUTES V
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Identifier: encyclopediaopth06wood
Authors: Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert), 1856-1942
Subjects: Ophthalmology
Publisher: Chicago : Cleveland Press
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va ; and optico-ciliaryneurotomy or neurectomy. ENUCLE.\TION. So far as can be ascertained the first scientific attempt at the extir-pation, or enucleation, of an eyeball was made by Lange in 1555, who, 4:?!»2 ENUCLEATION OF THE EYE AND ITS SUBSTITUTES however, f;iil<(l to leave a record as to his method of procedure,although he r(i)oi-te(l liis expei-ieiice. About the first recorded methodof (iiuch-atiou, or extirpatiou as it was called, was described iu1583 by George Bartisch {Ophthalmodoulria oder Augendicnst, 158.3),of Koni»sbriick. in Saxony. Tntil about 1850 eyes were extirpatedpractically oidy in such cases as cancers, tumors, fungus hematodes,etc., and the method was rarely employed under any circumstances,l^artisch passed a stron^r needle and thread throusrh the eyeball andthen while making traction on the thread and eyeball, passed behindthe eye a sliar]) knife, or spoon, and scooj)ed and cnt away the globefrom all its attacliments. Before permanently adopting the spoon
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The Kxtiriiatioii Mothod of Bartisch. knife, however, he lirst experiment<(l with a small ra/.or-shaped knifewith which he severed the eye from its orbit;. 1 attachments. The opera-tion was so dreadful that Guthrie, in his woi-k on the eye published iu1823, mentions the fact that Bartolini endeavored to mitigate itsseverity by pulling out a cancerous eye by hooks, a mild procedure,followed in three days by the death of the patient in convulsions. Some of Bartischs followers, including Fabrici de Ililden {Obstr-ration. Chirurg., 1646), who wrote on the subject in 1646, used adouble-edged knife, instead of a spoon, after the conjunctiva had beenseparated from the bulb by what is known as a circumcorneal incision.This method was used without many variations for years until Louisproposed, according to Rowley {DLsfas(s f ih< E)j() in 1790, as asubstitute for the knife, the use of flat, blunt, cui-ved scis.«;ors andhooked forcei)s. ENUCLEATION OF THE EYE AND ITS SUBSTITUTES V
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