Diseases and injuries of the eye : their medical and surgical treatment / by George Lawson.
- George Lawson
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Diseases and injuries of the eye : their medical and surgical treatment / by George Lawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![thus established, an india-rubber drainage tube with holes cut at short distances is to be introduced, one ex- tremity of which is to be afterwards fastened on the forehead, whilst the other end protrudes slightly from the nostril. The easiest way of introducing the drainage tube is to ])ass a probe with an eye up the nostril and out of the wound, and having fastened the tube to it by means of a piece of string, to draw it back again through the nose. The object of the drainage tube is to keep the channel between the two cavities from closing, and to enable the attendant to wash out the frontal sinus at least twice a day with some astringent and disinfectant solution. For the latter purpose the lotio alum, cum zinc, sulph., or the lotio acid, carbolic. (F. 42, 47) may be injected with a glass syringe through one of the openings at the upper extremity of the tube. The drainage tube should be worn for five or six months, or until all dischai'ge from the nose has ceased. The results of these cases when thus treated are usually most satisfactory.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21524646_0383.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
