Case of Aneurism of Orbit

I wish to record very briefly a case of traumatic aneurism of the orbit, treated eventually by ligation of the common carotid, in which the treatment has been partly, but not wholly, successful. James Sparks, set. 10, was looking through a keyhole on the 23rd of May, when a boy at the other side of the door pushed a piece of umbrella-wire through the keyhole into his eye. The wire, probably, was thrust deep into the orbit by the inner side of the eyeball. He was taken to the Infirmary at once, and detained. A small wound on the conjunctiva, and some blood under it towards the inner side, were the most noticeable signs of the injury. A few hours afterwards there was consider