of the opposite side. The eye was
not lost, and opacity of the lower part of the cornea alone resulted.
Cold water and purging constituted the treatment.

It is said a that an old soldier of one of Napoleon's armies had a
musket-ball removed from his left orbit after twenty-four years'
lodgment. He was struck in the orbit by a musket-ball, but as at the
same time a companion fell dead at his side he inferred that the bullet
rebounded from his orbit and killed his comrade. For twenty-four years
he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of
the left eye. After removal of the ball the eye partially atrophied.

Warren reports a case of a man of thirty-five whose eyeball was
destroyed by the explosion of a gun, the breech-pin flying off and
penetrating the head. The orbit was crushed; fourteen months afterward
the man complained of soreness on the hard palate, and the whole
breech-pin, with screw attached, was extracted. The removal of the pin
was followed by fissure of the hard palate, which, however, was
relieved by operation. The following is an extract of a report by
Wenyon of Fatshan, South China:--

"Tang Shan, Chinese farmer, thirty-one years of age, was injured in the
face by the bursting of a shot-gun. After being for upward of two
months under the treatment of native practitioners, he came to me on
December 4, 1891. I observed a cicatrix on the right side of his nose,
and above this a sinus, still unhealed, the orifice of which involved
the inner canthus of the right eye, and extended downward and inward
for about a centimeter. The sight of the right eye was entirely lost,
and the anterior surface of the globe was so uniformly red that the
cornea could hardly be distinguished from the surrounding conjunctiva.
There was no perceptible enlargement or protrusion of the eyeball, and
it did not appear to have sustained any mechanical injury or loss of
tissue. The ophthalmia and keratitis were possibly caused by the
irritating substances applied to the wound by the Chinese doctors. The
sinus on the side of the nose gave exit to a continuous discharge of
slightly putrid pus, and the patient complained of continuous headache
and occasional dizziness, which interfered with his work. The pain was
referred to the right frontal and temporal regions, and the skin on
this part of the head had a slight blush, but there was no superficial
tenderness. The patient had been told by his native doctors, an