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Luxation of the Eye in a Dog
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The Veterinary Journal ~ranslatiort LUXATION OF THE EYE IN A DOG. B v VET ERINARY SURGEON N . PLU M, Cop en hagen.
A SMALL mongrel had a fight about a bone in the street with anoth er dog and came home with luxa tion of th e eyeball. Seventeen and three-quarter hours after the bulbus was intensely swollen, the cornea. and conjunctiva were dry and rough, and at th e medial side of th e cornea there was a severe injury. The ey eball was put back and th e lid sutured. This was removed after two days. The bulbus was not yet in its place, and the dog had a marked externa l squint. The cornea was quite g ray and its vessels greatly dilated . During the next few days the eye was massaged through the eyelid with ung. oph. fl av . After a few days the eye was movable ; after three weeks its movem ent was normal and the eye had assumed its right position. The first fourt een days the cornea improved, but then bulged more and more from the injury. To ward off danger of p erforation of the cornea 2 per cent. physostygmine solution was trickled into the eye twice daily. In spite of this the corneal wound threatened perforation more and more. On this account the advice of th e eye specialist , Dr. Edmund, was sought. This expert declared tha t physostygmine only lessened intraocular pressure in glaucoma and not on the normal eye, and that in. this case atropine must be employed, a nd by use of this agent the iris retracted, and any perforation of the cornea and prolapse of the iris was avoided; for in such a case the danger of an infection of the anterior chamber of the eye was very great. The cornea was treated by Dr. Edmund over its whole surface with Wesselys st eam thermo-cautery (this instrument is similar to Paquelin's benzene thermo-cautery only that the heat at the point is furnished by superheated steam) . This caused it to become dry and parchment-like. Five per cent . noviform ointment was rubbed in daily. Under this ' treatment the cornea soon cleared up, and after two months' daily treatment with noviform ointment only a dimness remained in the deep er layer of the cornea. Eight months lat er an examination of the eye with th'e ophthalmoscope showed it to be norma1. -(Maanedskr f or Dyrlaeg 35. pp. 573-576.)
The Veterinary Journal ~ranslatiort LUXATION OF THE EYE IN A DOG. B v VET ERINARY SURGEON N . PLU M, Cop en hagen.
A SMALL mongrel had a fight about a bone in the street with anoth er dog and came home with luxa tion of th e eyeball. Seventeen and three-quarter hours after the bulbus was intensely swollen, the cornea. and conjunctiva were dry and rough, and at th e medial side of th e cornea there was a severe injury. The ey eball was put back and th e lid sutured. This was removed after two days. The bulbus was not yet in its place, and the dog had a marked externa l squint. The cornea was quite g ray and its vessels greatly dilated . During the next few days the eye was massaged through the eyelid with ung. oph. fl av . After a few days the eye was movable ; after three weeks its movem ent was normal and the eye had assumed its right position. The first fourt een days the cornea improved, but then bulged more and more from the injury. To ward off danger of p erforation of the cornea 2 per cent. physostygmine solution was trickled into the eye twice daily. In spite of this the corneal wound threatened perforation more and more. On this account the advice of th e eye specialist , Dr. Edmund, was sought. This expert declared tha t physostygmine only lessened intraocular pressure in glaucoma and not on the normal eye, and that in. this case atropine must be employed, a nd by use of this agent the iris retracted, and any perforation of the cornea and prolapse of the iris was avoided; for in such a case the danger of an infection of the anterior chamber of the eye was very great. The cornea was treated by Dr. Edmund over its whole surface with Wesselys st eam thermo-cautery (this instrument is similar to Paquelin's benzene thermo-cautery only that the heat at the point is furnished by superheated steam) . This caused it to become dry and parchment-like. Five per cent . noviform ointment was rubbed in daily. Under this ' treatment the cornea soon cleared up, and after two months' daily treatment with noviform ointment only a dimness remained in the deep er layer of the cornea. Eight months lat er an examination of the eye with th'e ophthalmoscope showed it to be norma1. -(Maanedskr f or Dyrlaeg 35. pp. 573-576.)