The real damage could not be estimated, as the patient never returned after the muscle was clipped off close to its conjunctival insertion.

Calhoun mentions an instance of a little Esquimaux dog whose head was seized between the jaws of a large Newfoundland with such force as to press the left eyeball from the socket.

The ball rested on the cheek, held by the taut optic nerve; the cornea was opaque.

The ball was carefully and gently replaced, and sight soon returned to the eye.
In former days there was an old-fashioned manner of fighting called "gouging." In this brutal contest the combatant was successful who could, with his thumb, press his opponent's eyeball out.

Strange to say, little serious or permanently bad results followed such inhuman treatment of the eye.