ILLUSTRATIONS
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0. Brain showing eyes with muscles removed, optic nerves, and chiasm Frontispiece
1. Glassware and tools 22
2. The first cut 28
3. How the point of the scissors is kept away from the underlying tissues 29
4. Half of the sclerotic separated 30
5. Picking up the choroid 31
6. Emptying the eye of its contents 32
7. Isolated hyaloid, contents and attachments intact 33
8. Petit’s Canal 36
9. Cutting eye into anterior and posterior sections with safety-razor blade 39
10. Posterior half showing retinal vessels and choroid 40
11. Showing network of vitreous 42
12. Tearing retina away from posterior half of eye 44
13. Posterior half of eye with retina removed 45
14. Excavated posterior half of eye 46
15. Split optic nerve 47
16. Ciliary processes and the lens 48
17. How to pull off vitreous 50
18. Processus Zonuloe 54
19. Onion-like layers of lens removed 56
20. Cross section of lens 57
21. Lenses showing the results of different kinds of treatment 60
22. Puncturing the cornea 63
23. Removing the cornea 64
24. How to separate the choroid from the sclerotic 65
25. Cutting away the separated sclerotic 67
26. Scraping the choroid free from the sclerotic 68
27. The isolated choroid 69
28. Inserting scalpel to loosen lens and cut through vitreous 70
29. Taking out lens and “core” of vitreous 71
30. Squeezing out remaining part of vitreous 72
31. Cutting through the iris 75
32. Cutting around the ciliary ring 76
33. Lens, iris, and part of vitreous removed 77
34. How to force blowpipe into the vitreous 78
35. Bulging out of vitreous caused by blowing air through glass blowpipe 79
36. Showing vitreous removed 80
37. Folding the retina by blowing air at it through blowpipe 81
38. Suspended retina. Sclerotic ready to be cut away 82
39. Showing sclerotic nearly all cut away 83
40. Isolated retina 84
41. The beginning of the cutting of the eye for sagittal sections 87
42. Method of cutting through the crystalline lens 88
43. Cutting through cornea to complete the sagittal sections 89
44. Sagittal section enlarged 90
45. Part of calf’s head showing knitting needles inserted in puncta 93
46. Course of knitting needles showing the course of the canaliculi 94
47. Initial cuts to be made in the skin 98
48. First cut in bones of orbit 99
49. All the cuts to be made in bones of orbit 100
50. How to pry bone loose 101
51. Dissecting close to bones of orbit 102
52. Excavated orbit 103
53. Anterior view of enucleated eye 104
54. Side view of enucleated eye. All parts in situ 104
55. Enlarging pupil for ophthalmoscopic inspection 107
56. How to get rid of the pucker in the cornea 108
57. Window cut in the eye 110
58. Pins inserted in lacrimal ducts 112
59. Capsule of Tenon blown up 115
60. Showing the extrinsic muscles of the eye 118
61. Cutting through the iris 120
62. Scraping ciliary processes free. Choroid cut around ciliary ring 121
63. Cutting away choroid 122
64. Three tunics, hyaloid, and lens 123