��SERIES XXVI. DISEASES OF THE EYE.
Blind-fish, and blind craw-fish, from the Mammoth Cave, Ky. See Nos. 526-7.
2044-5. Daguerreotypes of a case of protrusion of the eyes, in connection with an enlarged thyroid gland ; front and pro- file view.
The patient was a delicate and chlorotic young lady, twenty-one years of age. The protrusion and the enlarge- ment had existed for some months ; and she could not say which first appeared. The globes could be pressed back a little into the sockets, but in a second or two they again protruded, with a wild and staring look. Vision not' affected. The thyroid was moderately enlarged, and pul- sating, with an interrupted 'bruit that became continuous on pressure. The hair had already begun to turn gray ; a fact that Dr. B. had observed in another case of exophthal- my, and that appeared after typhoid fever.
Dr. B. remarked upon the resemblance of his case to those published by Mr. Cooper, in the London Lancet for May 29th, 1849. (Med. Jour. Vol. LXI. p. 37, with a figure.) 1858. Dr. H. J. Eigdow.
2046. A true bony growth, from the bottom of the globe of the eye. Form rather crescentric, but about an inch in length, 7 lines in width, and 1^ lines in thickness ; edges thin.
From a young man, set. nineteen, who, at the age of four years, received a blow upon the eye, which was followed by loss of vision, and from that time frequent attacks of inflam- mation. The globe was removed, as there was some threat- ening of disease in the other eye ; and the following ap- pearances were described by Dr. D.
The globe was of normal dimensions ; the sclerotic being in the posterior half so thin in many places, as distinctly to reveal the line of the choroidal pigment. On section, the cornea was found much thickened, and the lens shrunk- en and chalky. The retina was wholly detached from the choroid, hanging away from the ora serrata on all sides,
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