I thought I'd share my discovery. I was googling an ancestor ...as you do.
I googled John Pugh toolmaker and found him in 1840's medical journals/ articles written by an eye surgeon at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary.
Google seem to be adding some free view books to their collection.
I couldn't manage to copy an image of the page , but copied and pasted the text.
Here it is (I've referenced the sources where I found this article)
A Piece of Steel in the Anterior Chamber in Contact with the Iris John Pugh , 32, tool maker Whilst at work a portion of hard steel was detached from a punch and forcibly struck his left eye Two days afterwards he called upon me when I made the following notes of his case Pupil clear but contracted its mobility somewhat impaired iris dull and in a state of inflammation at its temporal side and in its anterior surface a small portion of metallic looking substance may be perceived which he tells me is a portion of hard steel detached from a punch with which he was working Treatment Bleeding mercury to the production of moderate ptyalism cooling lotions and low diet Result After remaining on the books little more than a fortnight he was discharged his eye being quite well with directions to return if a relapse of inflammation should take place The metal is still to be seen in contact with the iris but his vision is as good as it was prior to the accident The only difference of any sort which can be perceived is that when the pupil is expanded that portion of the ris with which the metal is in contact the anterior surface and temporal side of the iris appears to be paralysed so that the pupil possesses a shape very much like the letter D This is another instance exhibiting the good effects of making no effort to remove a foreign body by a surgical operation when it has completely passed into the anterior chamber.
By James Johnson , The Medico- Chirurgical Review July 1841
This was found in A Report of the Cases Attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary during 1838 and 1838 by Richard Middlemore, esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary.
Who knows you may find an ancestor within these pages or perhaps Richard Middlemore was your ancestor.
"Any road up" I'm sure many of you will find it fascinating reading for its social history.
Enjoy,
Lu
I googled John Pugh toolmaker and found him in 1840's medical journals/ articles written by an eye surgeon at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary.
Google seem to be adding some free view books to their collection.
I couldn't manage to copy an image of the page , but copied and pasted the text.
Here it is (I've referenced the sources where I found this article)
A Piece of Steel in the Anterior Chamber in Contact with the Iris John Pugh , 32, tool maker Whilst at work a portion of hard steel was detached from a punch and forcibly struck his left eye Two days afterwards he called upon me when I made the following notes of his case Pupil clear but contracted its mobility somewhat impaired iris dull and in a state of inflammation at its temporal side and in its anterior surface a small portion of metallic looking substance may be perceived which he tells me is a portion of hard steel detached from a punch with which he was working Treatment Bleeding mercury to the production of moderate ptyalism cooling lotions and low diet Result After remaining on the books little more than a fortnight he was discharged his eye being quite well with directions to return if a relapse of inflammation should take place The metal is still to be seen in contact with the iris but his vision is as good as it was prior to the accident The only difference of any sort which can be perceived is that when the pupil is expanded that portion of the ris with which the metal is in contact the anterior surface and temporal side of the iris appears to be paralysed so that the pupil possesses a shape very much like the letter D This is another instance exhibiting the good effects of making no effort to remove a foreign body by a surgical operation when it has completely passed into the anterior chamber.
By James Johnson , The Medico- Chirurgical Review July 1841
This was found in A Report of the Cases Attended at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary during 1838 and 1838 by Richard Middlemore, esq. Surgeon to the Infirmary.
Who knows you may find an ancestor within these pages or perhaps Richard Middlemore was your ancestor.
"Any road up" I'm sure many of you will find it fascinating reading for its social history.
Enjoy,
Lu