rOL. XLIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. dS 



Of a Shuttle- spire taken out of the Bladder oj a Boy. By Mr. Wm. ^rderon^ 



of Norwich. N°474, p. I94. 



Mr. John Harmer, a surgeon in this city, cut one Peter Riggs, a boy about 

 17 years of age, for the stone ; at which time there was extracted from him an 

 iron shuttle-spire, 4 inches long. He had, it is said, some time before, a stop- 

 page of urine ; and, by endeavouring with this piece of wire to relieve himself, 

 and thrusting it too far along the urinary passage, he let it slip into the bladder, 

 where it occasioned the same symptoms as a stone would have done. He under- 

 went the operation with great fortitude ; and said nothing of this accident till it 

 was all over. He is now perfectly recovered, 



y^ Remarkable Cure, performed on the Eye of a Young JVoman in Scotland. By 

 Tho. Hope, M.D. Communicated from Dr. Mead. N" 474, p. 194. 



Jane Willson, a girl then 1 8 years of age, about 7 years before began to have 

 her left eye turned towards the temple, occasioned by some tumour between the 

 globe and the orbit. This tumour, for some years, did not appear outwardly ; 

 but increasing by degrees, at last a hard swelling appeared externally, reaching 

 from the great angle almost to the little angle under the lower eyelid, and half an 

 inch down on the cheek : it had forced the globe of the eye almost out of the 

 socket, so that the pupil of that eye was, by measure, above \- of an inch fur- 

 ther from the nose, than the pupil of the other eye; and the eye was more jet- 

 ting out in proportion ; so that it seemed to be out upon the temple, and quite 

 immoveable ; which, with the tumour, made a frightful sight. The patient 

 had frequent pains in her head; but yet the sight of that eye was not lost, though 

 a good deal impaired. 



Dr. H. showed this patient to Mr. Alexander Monro, professor of anatomy at 

 Edinburgh; who, after examining it very narrowly, gave it as his opinion, that 

 this tumour had begun at the bottom of the orbit ; and that the extirpation would 

 be exceedingly difficult ; and, as it seemed to be an incysted tumour, if any of 

 that cystis remained at the roots, it would be apt to sprout up again ; but con- 

 cluded that there was room for a trial; and it would be a pity not to do something 

 in order to save the patient's eye, and probably her life, which would be in 

 danger if the tumour continued to increase. 



Considering the great risk that the patient ran, if something was not speedily 

 done. Dr. H. resolved to undertake it ; having had a case of the like nature, but 

 in a less degree, under his care about 12 years ago in London, the extirpation 

 of which he performed without any bad consequence ; and on consulting the 

 book of his old master St. Ives, found almost a parallel case to this girl's, which 

 he says he extirpated with success. 



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