"In the present case this is a very easy thing to accomplish. The assistant should press down the lid as much as possible around the eye, and the operator, taking the eye in his left hand, and pulling it slowly but firmly forward, should cut through the nerve and other tissues with one stroke of his scalpel, the division being made as closely as possible to the lids without wounding them. The bleeding will not be considerable, and will be easily checked. The eyelids must be opened, and a little very soft lint introduced into the cavity, not sufficient in quantity to press painfully on the tender parts within, yet enough tolerably to fill the hollow when gorged with blood. A piece of linen, or a cap contrived for the purpose, must then be tied over the eye, and the patient dismissed. On the following day the lint may be removed from the socket, and not in one case in twenty will there be any bleeding. The blemish will be considerably less than if the eye had been forcibly returned, and the sight destroyed."

My practice is, after removing the eyeball, to put two stitches through the edges of the eyelids, by which means the sunken socket is concealed from view, and there is not the slightest vestige of an unpleasant appearance left.