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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    [ «• ] common to all other of the fecretory organs in a limilar Hate. A little and conHant ftimulus may continue for years, without cauling any fuch change as to deftroy the lacrymai function; and therefore*tis no uncommon thing for fome to have a perpetually weeping eye ; which, though very trou- blefome, will never effentially injure the light. On the contrary, when the lacry- mai gland, or fource of the tears, has from any of the caufes hereafter recited, been partially or entirely deftroyed, the eye is thenceforward either partially or entirely deprived of tears, and will in a fimilar proportion have more, lefs, or no- thing left, to cover it from the external air, &c. but the ordinary fecretions of the conjunctiva. This Hate of the eye is at- tended with much more ferious and fatal efFe&s than what ufually refult from the Epiphora Vera, and conftitutes the difeafe which bears the appellation of Zeropthal- mia Oculus Siccus, or dry eye; which will be prefently defcribed. Some
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