A new and easy method of curing the fistula lacrymalis : to which is added, a dissertation on the epiphora vera, or, true watery eye, and the zeropthalmia, or dry eye / by Jonathan Wathen ; also, an appendix, on the treatment of patients after the operation for the cataract, in which are shewn, the evils attendant on long confinement and continued bandages, and an opposite practice recommended, illustrated with cases, by Jonathan Wathen Phipps.

  • Wathen, Jonathan, 1729-1808.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A new and easy method of curing the fistula lacrymalis : to which is added, a dissertation on the epiphora vera, or, true watery eye, and the zeropthalmia, or dry eye / by Jonathan Wathen ; also, an appendix, on the treatment of patients after the operation for the cataract, in which are shewn, the evils attendant on long confinement and continued bandages, and an opposite practice recommended, illustrated with cases, by Jonathan Wathen Phipps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 9° ] ufual; and her habit being plethoric, a gentle cathartic was adminiffered. On the next day fhe complained of a flight pain in the right eye, and a fenfation, refembling that of a particle of duff, hav- ing infinuated itfelf into the left. She had been very reftlefs and feverifh all night. On examination, I found both eyes inflamed, and the conjun&iva of the left diftended, by the aqueous humour having infinuated itfelf between the con- jundtiva and fclerotica, 3s before men- tioned. This I immediately pundtured, and fcarified the infide of both lids, and had her cupped and bliftered on the left temple. The bandages were laid afide, and a fhade fubftituted in their room. 'vd: i: ■ ■ • r\ ■> 1 >'■ • ' I examined the eyes every day, and continued the fcarifications of the lids, with the addition of the thebaic tindlure. The light was no otherwife affedfed than weak from the inflammation, which was iubdued in about ten days, when no ill effect remained but a ftaphyloma in the left eye. This confiderably increafed, though
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