Trade in African Diamonds: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...a pedicle became gangrenous. In the matter of replacing mucosa the writer gives a re'rume' of the literature, and inclines to the opinion that the transplantation of vaginal mucosa is best. BilDINGER (288) takes skin flaps from the temporal region or cheek; tarsus and conjunctiva are replaced by flaps from the auricle. SANTUCCI (29o) classifies all dermoids of the eye as follows: 1. Pure dermoids, always congenital, caused by the turning in of elements of the upper lid in foetal life. 2. Congenital lipomas. 3. Lipodermoids. 4. Teratomata covered with conjunctiva. These are rare, arise from residua of the third lid, and are attached to the eyeball. Often they are subconjunctival lipomas with the turning in of lachrymal or Krause's glands. In this form there are found also muscle, cartilage, and bone. 5. Teratomata covered with skin. Of five cases observed by the writer two fell under 1, two under 3, and one under 5. KRAHNSTOvER. In a weakly child of five RINDFLEISCH (291) found that on one eye which was otherwise normal the lashes had been growing gray for three months. The child exhibited no special morbid symp toms but remained weak after an inflammation of the lungs some time before. Microscopically he found the lashes, which were fast in the lid margin, lacking in the usual collection of air bubbles in the cortical layer. MARPLE's (292) case showed ulceration at the margin of the lids, and later of the ocular conjunctiva, covered with a gray exudate resembling diphtheria. The glands of the jaw were swollen and some constitutional symptoms were present. Staph. pyog. alb. proved to be the cause of infection. ALLING. IX.---LACHRYMAL APPARATUS. 293. Grimaldi. A clinical contribution to dacryo-adenitis acuta. Gr'urn. intern. dell: Scions: ..