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Image number: RS.10341
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Diagrams of the eye
Date
1816
Creator
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian) , Engraver
After
Faustino Anderloni (1766 - 1847, Italian)
Object type
Library reference
Books/Scarpa, A_Malattie Degli Occhi Vol2_1816
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 265mm
width (print): 211mm
width (print): 211mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Illustration showing 13 different states of the human eye:
1.Deformation of the lower eyelid due to extensive scarring below it
2.The deformity of figure 1 corrected, after surgery
3.Pterygium on the globe of the eye, and diagram showing where incisions are to be made in the surgical removal of this affliction
4.Dissection of the conjunctiva
5.A cluster of varicose blood vessels on the cornea
6.An ulcer on the iris
7.State of the eye after the healing of a prolapsed iris
8.Calculous concretion of the interior of the eye
9.Staphyloma of the sclerotic and choroid located in the back of the eye
10.A similar example to 9
11.An artificial pupil
12.Double incision of the iris for the formation of an artificial pupil
Plate 2 from Malattie Degli Occhie (Vol. 2) by Antonio Scarpa (Pavia, Pietro Bizzoni, 1816). Inscribed: ‘Tav. II. F. Anderloni delin et sculp.’
1.Deformation of the lower eyelid due to extensive scarring below it
2.The deformity of figure 1 corrected, after surgery
3.Pterygium on the globe of the eye, and diagram showing where incisions are to be made in the surgical removal of this affliction
4.Dissection of the conjunctiva
5.A cluster of varicose blood vessels on the cornea
6.An ulcer on the iris
7.State of the eye after the healing of a prolapsed iris
8.Calculous concretion of the interior of the eye
9.Staphyloma of the sclerotic and choroid located in the back of the eye
10.A similar example to 9
11.An artificial pupil
12.Double incision of the iris for the formation of an artificial pupil
Plate 2 from Malattie Degli Occhie (Vol. 2) by Antonio Scarpa (Pavia, Pietro Bizzoni, 1816). Inscribed: ‘Tav. II. F. Anderloni delin et sculp.’
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