The determination of the influence of the eyeball on the growth of the orbit, by experimental enucleation of one eye in young animals / by W. Ernest Thomson.

  • Thomson, William Ernest Francis.
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[1898]
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    Reprinted from lrol. XXI of the ' Ophthalmo logical Society's Transactions' The determination of the influence of the eyehall on the growth of the orbit, by experimental enucleation of one eye in young animals. By W. Ernest Thomson, M.D. (With Plates XVII and XVIII.) When visiting- Moorfielcls in 1898, I observed that in suitable cases Mules's operation was preferred to enuclea- tion. I had heard and read that enucleation in the young- subject resulted in faulty development of the orbit, and it occurred to me that such introduction of a p-lass e/lobe into the sclerotic ought to minimise failure of growth. But on making inquiries I found that opinion was divided among surgeons as to whether such failure of development really occurred or not. There seemed, how- ever, to be a feeling that although often stated, it was probably mythical. There appeared to be little doubt that the subject was one which would be most profitably attacked from the experimen tal standpoint. Shortly afterwards there appeared the Beport of the Committee of this Society on the relative value of excision and the operations which have been substituted for it. Tin's rep< irt 'Y: enumerated as one of the disadvantages which have been alleged against simple excision, the faulty develop- ment of bhe orbit and face on the side from which the eye lias been removed when the operation lias been performed in * Trans. Op/it/ialmoloffical Society, vol. xviii (1898), page 250.