A manual of surgery : founded upon the principles and practice lately taught by Sir Astley Cooper and Joseph Henry Green.

Date:
1832
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Credit: A manual of surgery : founded upon the principles and practice lately taught by Sir Astley Cooper and Joseph Henry Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION IV. diseases of the appendages of the eye hordeolum or stye. ]. One of the most common affections of the eye-lids, is that nown by the name of stye or hordeolum, from its resemblance 0 a barley-corn. charged. snnnuration is confined to a small space,hut in others, i.r. “a»c.e,«f . b.u.»a ...ushlng of .he c.Uul., meBh.ane .he» takes place. 2 U moat frequently happens that hordeolum depends upon something wrong in the system, or <'“8'’“* f ^ organs, or impaired functions in some part of the hody; and thei tee stales must be attcided to, for they produce irntat.on, and sometimes ulceration of the edges of the eye-lids. ,q It is necessary when styes are attended with inllammarton and redness, that cold applications, poultices, and fomentations he applied, as in other indammations i and when matter formed, that the abscess should be opened with a lancet. 2x
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