Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / [Percivall Pott].

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1769
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [vi ] V 9 geon’s hand, as jockeys do that of' the feet of a horfe, viz. by a flop- i .) watch ; a practice which though it may perhaps have been encouraged by operators themfelves, muft have * been productive of moft mifchievous confequences. Tute et celeriter are both very proper charadteriftics of a good chirurgic operation ; but tute Hands as it Should do, in the firft place, and the patient who buffers the fmalleft injury from the hurry of his operator has no recompence from the reputation which the latter obtains from the by-ftanders. In moft of the capital operations un¬ foreseen circumftances will fome- tirnes occur, and muft be attended to; and he, who without giving unnecef-
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