Volume 1
A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second].
- Noble, Edward Moore
- Date:
- 1800-1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![[ »8 ] conclude, -therefore, that the iron did not as was fupposed act as a famulus, exciting the muscle into greater action, but was fo hot as to produce a fubfequent inflamma- tion, if not an escar, fufficiently great to cause the fibres of the Levator palpebrce juperioris, either to adhere to each other, or to the neighbouring parts, and by that means prevent their natural action; as happens in the adhesions that follow burns. Though it has been faid, that the weak- nefs of the contraction of the Levator pal- pebrce fuperioris is the cause of the trichiasis of the upper lid, yet an inversion of the ciliary edge may be produced, not fo much by that muscle being weaker than usual, as from its having a greater resistance than natural to overcome, by the Ikin being thicker and more relaxed, or the cellular membrane enlarged, by the deposition of a fmall quantity of febaceous matter, which will require a greater force to move and elevate it.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439205_0001_0132.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
