The Removal of Foreign Bodies from the Eye.

Abstract

Burlington, Iowa, Aug. 25, 1902. To the Editor: —I would like to add a brief supplement to my remarks in the discussion of Dr. Sweet's paper at the Saratoga meeting. By reference to these remarks it will be seen that I reported a case of foreign body in the eye in which I felt that the x -ray photography was of the character criticised by Dr. Lippincott in the same discussion. My suspicion of failure in the x -ray work was borne out by the subsequent history of the case, which is as follows: On my return home the 1st of July I found that the eye was becoming soft and shrunken and had every sign of chronic cyclitis. I thereupon enucleated it. The foreign body, which was shown in the picture exhibited, as apparently high up in the globe or in the orbit (as the photographer said) was really