A treatise on the diseases of the eye and their remedies : to which is prefixed, the anatomy of the eye, the theory of vision, and the several species of imperfect sight : illustrated with copper plates / by Geo. Chandler, surgeon.
- Chandler, George
- Date:
- MDCCLXXX [1780]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye and their remedies : to which is prefixed, the anatomy of the eye, the theory of vision, and the several species of imperfect sight : illustrated with copper plates / by Geo. Chandler, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![duftion, or rather a continuation of the dura maten The organs of fight may be divided into two parts : the interna], which is the globe of the eye with its contents; and the external, which are thofe parts about the globe, fubfervient to, and encompaffing it, SECT. II. Of the external Parts of the Eye. SuperciUa. 1 HE firft of the external parts, are the fuper- cilia or eyebrows, which are two hairy arches placed above the orbits, and which are made to bunch out, by fome fat which is under the fkin in that place, and likewife by the eminence of that part of the frontal bone, which lies under them. They ferve to defend the eyes from too ftrong a light, and alio from fweat, dull, or infefts which might otherwife fall into the eye. They are drawn obliquely downwards, and at the fame time corrugated and made'to approach one](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21175706_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
