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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    [ 5» ] another diforder, very different in its ori- gin and effects, bearing the fame name, which I fhall now make the fubjed of difcuflion ; and with the view of diftin- guifhing it from the former, I fhall call it the Epiphora Vera : inafmuch as it is a real difeafe of the fecretory organ of the tears, and demands a very different treat- ment from the former, or Epiphora Spu- ria, I fir ft premife the following obferva- tions: The tears, properly fo called, are fe- creted by the glandula innominata, and are efTentially fimple and mild in their natural ftate; — but it is equally true with refped to them, as in every other fecretion, that they acquire a tenuity and fharpnefs in proportion to their excefs. It is by fome fuppofed, that the eye it- felf furnifhes a confiderable portion of the tears, by which it is humeded, from a tranfudation of the aqueous humour thro’ the lucid and opake cornea, or by a fecretion between their lamina, exuding ever
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