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Injuries of the Eye, Orbit, and Eyelids; Their Effects
Injuries of the Eye Orbit and Eyelids Their Effects Author:George Lawson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H. INJURIES TO THE EYE FROM BUENS, SCALDS, AND CHEMICAL AGENTS. (iJ-Nl. lll EFFECTS OF ESCHABOTICS ON THE EYE -- THE EFFECTS PRO- DCCED BY, AND THE TREATMENT FOB INJCBIES TO THE EYE FROM QUICK LIME, MORTAR, LIMB-PLASTER, AND OTHER COMBINATIONS OF LIME -- SCALDS AND BURNS OF THE EYE -- TREATMENT OF FUNOOID GRANULATIONS AFTER A BURN -- THE EFFECTS CAUSED BY, AND TREATMENT OF, INJURIES FROM STRONG SULPHURIC AND NITRIC ACIDS, TINEOAB AND DILUTE ACETIC ACID, AND STRONG ALKALIS. In Considering the injuries inflicted on the eye from burns, scalds, and chemical agents, it will be noticed that there is a certain similarity in the effects they each produce on the tissues with which they are brought in contact, and that the process of repair which follows is also in each very identical. There are, however, certain peculiarities which usually serve to distinguish the agent by which the injury has been caused, and to demand for it some special treatment. The severity of the injury may vary from a mere irritation of the eye, to an actual destruction of the part upon which the escharotic has acted; and between these two extremes every gradation may be met with. When the injury is confined to the ocular or palpebral conjunctiva, if it does not reach deeper than the epithelial layer, though it is sufficient to dull and whiten the surface, the damaged epithelium will be ultimately shed, but it will be again reproduced, and little if any indication will be left to mark the site of the wound. The same may also be saidif the injury is limited to the epithelial layer of the cornea, except that th...« less