Abstract
The child whose case is reported here was found to have particles of copper in both eyes after the explosion of percussion caps. Due perhaps to the low content of copper in the metal of the caps, spontaneous absorption of the foreign bodies in both eyes was not accompanied by the destructive changes usually observed in such cases. One eye demonstrated the phenomenon of chalcosis; this eye (left) retained normal vision for eight years after the accident. From the Department of Surgery, Division of Ophthalmology, University of California Medical School. Read before the Western Ophthalmological Society at Butte, Montana, July 19, 1934. The child whose case is reported here was found to have particles of copper in both eyes after the explosion of percussion caps. Due perhaps to the low content of copper in the metal of the caps, spontaneous absorption of the foreign bodies in both eyes was not accompanied by the destructive changes usually observed in such cases. One eye demonstrated the phenomenon of chalcosis; this eye (left) retained normal vision for eight years after the accident. From the Department of Surgery, Division of Ophthalmology, University of California Medical School. Read before the Western Ophthalmological Society at Butte, Montana, July 19, 1934.
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