Abstract
Injuries to the eyes by the indiscriminate use of air guns and sling shots by children is well illustrated by the following three cases seen in one month, two of which came to our attention in one day. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. —Injury of right eye by BB shot. Foreign body in orbit. H. B., a boy, aged 16 years, seen, Dec. 6, 1927, had been struck in the right eye by a BB shot from an air gun, the previous day, while playing with boys. The vision of the right eye was 15/200. There was moderate palpebral and bulbar conjunctival injection and lacrimation. No perforation was seen. The fundus examination showed a normal disk and macula; toward the nasal side there was a large edematous area of the retina, in the center of which was a longitudinal white area, 3 to 4 by 1/2 disk diameters in
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