ACCIDENT AT HUNTLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 91, 21 April 1891, Page 5

ACCIDENT AT HUNTLY.

A REMARKABLE OPERATION,

Ax accident of a very unfortunate character happened at the Huntly coal mine to a miner named Edward Frusb. He was hewing coal, when a splinter of coal Hew off and struck him lairly on the front part of the eye. The lids vvero open ab bhe time, and the blow being a violent one, . Frusb had very little foeling in tho eye subsequently. Two days, afterwards, be Eaw a doctor at Huntly, when the injury did not appear very serious, but on the fourth day the eye was in a very bad stato and tho patient was sent to town on Saturday. Or. Wilkins was called in, and found the sight of the eye was irretrievably lost, the whole globule of the eye from the front to the back being in a broken-up and disorganised state. It has been customary under such circumstances to remove the eyeball, and replace it with a glass one, but in this case the doctor performed an operation which is of recent date in surgical science. This was to take the eye out, and separate the various nerves which connect with the bruin, thus avoiding sympathetic irritation there or in the sound eye. The eye was then replaced in its socket, where the structure is expected to reunite with the muscles. If successful, the patient will have his own eye instead of a glass one, but the appearance will be the same and it will be impossible for anyone to tell that the eye is sightless. On inquiry to-day wo learned that the operation so far has been successful, and «the patient is doing very well. Dr. Wilkins added that he had no doubt the operation would succeed, as he had'accomplished it in six other cases, and in no instance have the parts failed to unite.