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Technique of Eye Dissections

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Technique of Eye Dissections

[Illustration: Brain, showing eyes with muscles removed, optic nerves, and chiasm.]

Technique of Eye Dissections

_Associate Professor, Department of Hygiene, College of the City of New York; Optometry Courses, Columbia University; Member of New York State Board of Examiners in Optometry; Honorary Member: American Optometric Association; State Societies--Alabama, California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Rhode Island; Local Societies--Lehigh Valley Society of Optometrists, Mahoning Valley Optometrists’ Society, and Optometrists’ Club of Brooklyn_.

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY FREDERIC A. WOLL _Printed in the United States of America_ First Edition, July, 1914 Second Edition, April, 1924

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH AFFECTION AND ESTEEM TO MY FIRST TEACHER IN OPTICS, MY FRIEND FOR YEARS

WHOSE RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF APPLIED OPTICS HAS WON FOR HIM RECOGNITION AND HONOR

Removal of Hyaloid Membrane with Contents and Attachments Intact 25

Sagittal or Vertical Section of the Eye, The 86

Papilla, Puncta Lacrimalia, and Nasal Duct, The 92

Enucleation of the Orbital Contents, The 97

Superior Oblique Muscle and its Pulley 117

Three Tunics of the Eye, the Hyaloid and its Attachments, The 120

0. Brain showing eyes with muscles removed, optic nerves, and chiasm _Frontispiece_

3. How the point of the scissors is kept away from the underlying tissues 29

7. Isolated hyaloid, contents and attachments intact 33

9. Cutting eye into anterior and posterior sections with safety-razor blade 39

10. Posterior half showing retinal vessels and choroid 40

12. Tearing retina away from posterior half of eye 44

13. Posterior half of eye with retina removed 45

21. Lenses showing the results of different kinds of treatment 60

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