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Excerpt from Enucleation of the Eyeball, One of the Selected Papers Read Before the Mass. Medical Society, June 24, 1868: Section of the Ciliary Nerves and Optic Nerve, Communicated to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; Some Unnecessary Causes of Impaired Vision, Communicated to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
I have found among my patients a perhaps natural horror in reference to removal of the eyeball, no matter how use less this organ may have become as respects sight, and even when it has been the seat of severe or lasting pain; and I have also found my medical brethren when bringing their patients to the specialist, shrinking from advising them to submit to the removal of a sightless globe. There seems to be a sort of vague sensation among the laity, and I have found it also among physicians, that enucleation of the eye. Ball is a formidable and dangerous operation, only to be re sorted to in malignant disease, and as a dernier resort. The laity also do not distinguish between the comparatively tri?ing Operation of enucleation of the globe, and the, at present, rarely necessary and more formidable one of evacua tion of the contents of the orbit. I propose, therefore, to fully explain the anatomy of the operation, prove its simpli city and show its application, and thus, I trust, place before the members of the Society some of the advances of my specialty, which may not have been brought to their imme diate notice.
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