The lath was supposed to have passed behind the eyeball.

Collette speaks of an instance in which 186 pieces of glass were extracted from the left orbit, the whole mass weighing 186 Belgian grains.

They were blown in by a gust of wind that broke a pane of glass; after extraction no affection of the brain or eye occurred.

Watson speaks of a case in which a chip of steel 3/8 inch long was imbedded in cellular tissue of the orbit for four days, and was removed without injury to the eye.

Wordsworth reports a case in which a foreign body was deeply imbedded in the orbit for six weeks, and was removed with subsequent recovery.