Excerpt from Clinical Demonstrations on Ophthalmic Subjects Here, then, we have an eye, which is otherwise useful or capable of being rendered tolerably so, but which is tied down - buried, as it were - under an adherent lid, and rendered immovable. All the contrivances resorted to by surgeons to separate the lids from the globe have proved a mere waste of ingenuity - have, in other words, ended in dis appointment. Impelled by a feeling of perplexity, and a conviction that something might be done to save such eyes - to bring them to the light of day, and restore their mobility - I tried to fill up the lacuna by conjunctiva from the rabbit. The result of my first Operation was submitted to the Glasgow medico-chirurgical Society in December 1872, and at the meeting of the British Medical Association held in Edinburgh in August 1875, I exhibited two cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.