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

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1769
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Credit: Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / [Percivall Pott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thelefs to be regarded as the effeCt of violence and deftruCtion, at lead: of divifion; for, without entering minutely into the origin or nature of it, I believe, I may venture to affirm, that the diffolution of fome of the folid particles of broken capillary vef- fels, and a mixture of fome part of the juices which ffiould circulate thro' them, make a neceffary part of its production; however con (tan t its appearance may be in the progrefs toward healing a wound, or fore, yet it never is produced, even in the fmalleft quantity, without fome degree of erolion, fome breach in the natural (true- ture of the parts, and when fuch breach is healed the difeharge neceffiarily ceafes. On the contrary, mucus may by irritation, relaxation, or defluxion, on its fecreting or containing parts or organs, be increafed to a quantity far beyond what is neceffary or ufeful, and produce thereby a difeafe in parts where there is not the lead degree of folution of continuity, as in the cafes of tenefmus, (lone in the bladder, fluor albus, and Ample gleets from the urethra; as alfo in that kind of defluxion on the nofe and fauces, pro¬ ducing a catarrh, and in the immediate ef¬ fect of all ffernutatories, Other
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