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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ l°4 ] felf under our care. The operation was performed with the mod; perfect fuccefs. The fame treatment was here purfued as in the laft cafe. He was confined to his bed only the firft day ; the fhade was fubflituted in the place of bandages or* the fecond, and the application of the thebaic tin&ure never omitted. The in- flammation was very flight, and on the twelfth day, he went out and walked about as ufual. The pupils were per- fectly round, and no veftige of the ope- ration remains. His fight is in every refpeCt perfect. It would be thought needlefs to add other cafes; they would be but repetitions of thofe already given : many of a prior, and fome of a later date, where the fgc- cefs has been fimilar, might otherwife have been adduced. Sufficient may have been faid to prove the beneficial effeCts of the treatment recommended, and to fhew its fuperiority over the former practice, by obviating many of thofe inconvenien- ces to which that was fubjeCf, and by relieving the patients from much uneafi- nefs and pain. the end.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22391344_0128.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
