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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER X
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Its reduction was easy, and after some minor treatment vision was perfectly restored in the injured organ.

Thirty months after the accident the patient had perfect vision, and the eye had never in the slightest way discommoded him.
Bodkin mentions the case of a woman of sixty who fell on the key in a door and completely avulsed her eye.

In von Graefe's Archiv there is a record of a man of seventy-five who suffered complete avulsion of the eye by a cart-wheel passing over his head.

Verhaeghe records complete avulsion of the eye caused by a man falling against the ring of a sharp-worn key.

Hamill describes the case of a young girl whose conjunctiva was pierced by one of the rests of an ordinary gas-bracket.
Being hooked at one of its extremities the iron became entangled in either the inferior oblique or external rectus muscles, and completely avulsed the eyeball upon the cheek.


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