REMARKABLE CURE.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 527, 1 June 1880, Page 3

REMARKABLE CURE.

Another and even more singular case of the extraction of a foreign substance from the eye than we recently referred to, has occurred at the hospital here. It seems that some eight months ago a man named Byrne, who was working near Napier, had occasion to blast some logs with dynamite. After one of the explosions he felt a blow in the eye, one of the splinters having struck him. The part was much swollen and very sore, so much so that he obtained medical advice, under which the small wound soon healed up. The injury, however, altered the position of the eye, turning it to one side slightly, but not sufficiently so as to impair the sight or greatly disfigure ti[e eye. About a month ago the old wound broke out again and slight supporation followed, and the sufferer applied to the resident medical officer of the hospital. On examination Dr Gillon found what appeared at first to be a piece of bone or other hard substance projecting a little way out of the skin, and on close inspection found it to be the end of a splinter of wood. He proceeded to extract it, and to his astonishment took out a piece of rata no less than two inches in length and half an inch or so accross. At the time of the accident this had been driven into the orbit, right behind the eyeball, without in the least degree wounding the latter, and had there remained undiscovered for two-thirds of a year. The “ specimen ” has been preserved in spirits by Dr Gillon, and can bo seen at the hospital. The patient is getting on well, and his sight is perfect, the eye having also recovered its natural position.— Post.