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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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' C JO ] The cafe of exoflofis is uncommon, and does not properly come under either of the four hates which I have affigned to the fibula lacrymalis. I fhall neverthelefs recommend a mode of treatment, which I have in feveral inftances found fuccefsful, in my own practice. Apply a drill, 6f a fmall fize, through the external wound, in fuch a direction, that when worked it may make a pafifage through the offified part, precifely in the courfe of the natural duff. Repeat this procefs by a larger inftrument of the fame kind, till the perforation is as large, or rather larger, than the original and obli- terated palfage. The operator will know for a certainty when the perforator has performed its office, and made its way into the nofe, by the removal of all refin- ance to the point of the inhrument. The aperture through the exoflofis, if Very large (that is, i-8th and a half dia- meter, at leaf!) may perhaps anfwer the end ;

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