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pulling it out as far as possible, clips it away from 

 its attachment with the blunt-pointed scissors. 

 Hemorrhage is controlled by adrenalin and pressure, 

 and the patient is released. The eye should be 

 washed out daily for a week with boric-acid solu- 

 tion and the patient not exposed to direct sunshine, 

 dust, flies, or strong winds until all signs of irrita- 

 tion have disappeared. 



Enucleation of the EyebalJ 



This drastic procedure may be rendered necessary 

 by varying causes, such as destruction of the eye 

 by injuries, suppuration, or new growths invading 

 the eye or orbit, or to relieve the patient of the 

 persistent pain sometimes attending glaucoma. 



Place the patient in the abdominal position and 

 induce a general anesthesia by H-M-C and chloro- 

 form. 



Have ready at hand a pair of curved scissors, a 

 tissue forceps, two artery forceps, a rat-toothed 

 forceps, and two needles and silk sutures, all the 

 instruments to be sterilized by boiling and laid in 

 sterile dishes filled with boiled water ready for use. 

 Dressings, sterile swabs, gauze moistened with ster- 

 ile glycerin, adrenalin chlorid solution, an eye 

 dropper, an eye cap, and bandage must be ready 

 for use. 



Technic. — The patient being properly secured and 

 completely under the influence of the anesthetic, 

 the operator passes sutures through each eyelid, 

 but does not tie them. The assistant keeps the lids 

 apart by traction on the sutures during the whole 

 of the following stages. The conjunctival mucous 

 membrane is then seized with the forceps and but- 

 tonholed with the scissors, which are then introduced 

 into the wound and the mucous membrance divided 

 around the circumference of the orbit. The resulting 



