An Unusual Eye Accident

V. M., a boy aged 6, previously healthy, with no former eye trouble, while playing with a whirligig at school, Jan. 15, 1924, was injured when the string broke and the whirligig hit him in the left eye. There was profuse bleeding from the eye at the time of the accident. He was taken to a physician, who gave first aid. He had no further treatment until I saw him. I examined the eye, April 9, finding the lids, conjunctiva and sclera normal. Examination of the cornea showed a scar running from the lower border of the pupil to the cornea sclera margin at 6 o'clock, two small ciliary arteries, running on each side of the scar coming up from below. At the upper part of the scar, a small hair was projecting through an open ing into the anterior chamber. The hair was 7 mm. long, extending down to