Volume 2

Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / [James Ware].

  • James Ware
Date:
1787
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / [James Ware]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    otherleaving a gutter or groove, through which the tears are fuppofed to pafs from the Lachrymal gland to the Pundta La- chrymalia, while we are afleep. It fhould alfo be remembered, that the Cilia, or eye-lafhes, arife out of the ex¬ ternal termination of thefe Cartilages; and on the internal, at an evident diftance from them, is a line of fmall orifices, which are the excretory dufts of fmall glands, that lie on the inner furface of the Tarfus, and are called Glandulae Ciliares, vel Meibomii. The ufe of thefe glands is to fecrete a febaceous matter, fimilar to foft wax; which conftantly covers the edges of the lids, and keeps them fupple. The above fhort account of the eye, and its appendages, feems to contain all that is neceffary to a right underftanding of the following remarks.
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