GLASS EYES THAT MOVE
NEW TREATMENT FOR SOLDIERS. Captain J. L. Aymard, R.A.M.C., who is attached to the Queen's Hospital for' Facial Injuries, Frognal, Sidcup. Kent, describes, in a recent "Lancet an improved glass eye which can 'move. The chief drawback to the ordinafy glass eye is that, being sink ply a convex shell of glass, it tends to sink back into the socket and is fixed in "a stony glare.' 1 • Captain Aymard gets over these difficulties by placing in, the socket of the eye a sphere of living cartilage or gristle taken without risks, from -the patient's ribs. . It is all fane operation. While one surgeon removes the destroyed eye another surgeon, removes the_ pieces of cartilage from near the patient's breast bone. Two pieces, are ■ made into a little globe which is placed in the socket and the thin outer covering of the eye, the conjunctiva, is sewn over it to hold it in place. The ordinary glass eye shell is'inserted over this and is prevented from sinking backwards. Some movement, of the eye by the wearer is also possible. I ■ ,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 101, 22 January 1918, Page 8
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184GLASS EYES THAT MOVE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 101, 22 January 1918, Page 8
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