A chirurgical treatise on the diseases of the eyes. Containing proper remedies, and describing the operations requisite for their cures ... Written in French / ... Translated into English by J. Stockton.

Charles Saint-Yves

Date:: 1748

Credit: A chirurgical treatise on the diseases of the eyes. Containing proper remedies, and describing the operations requisite for their cures ... Written in French / ... Translated into English by J. Stockton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$dcs makes the hinder and lateral Part of the Side next the little Angle. Laftly, a fmall Part of the Os Palati makes the inferior and furthermoft Back-part of the Orbit, ‘ The Eye-lids^ which cover the Fore¬ part of the Globe^ are both compofed of the Skin, bordered each with a Cartilage, called Tarfus^ or Comby and with Hairs called Ciliay or EyeJaJhes; they are furnifh- ed with Mufcles for their Motion; the Skin of the Lids is more lax than in any other Part of the Body. The Cartilage of the upper Eye-lid is larger than that of the lower, its Breadth being about five Lines in its Middle ; from whence It diminifhes gradually towards the Angles, but it is narrower towards the Nofe than towards the Temples. The Cartilage of the lower Lid is a- bout two Tines broad, and keeps its Breadth in almoft all its Length % The Cartilages grow thicker as they draw to¬ wards the .Edge of the Eye-lids \ The Conjunftion of thefe Cartilages towards the Nofe is called the great Angle^ and that towards the Temples^ the little Angle.$