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Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott.

Percivall Pott

Date:: 1758

Credit: Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[4+] I should now proceed immediately to the fecond ftate of the difeafc j but as the French Academy of Surgery have lately publifhed fome papers upon this fubjeft, it is necefiary to obferve that thefe gentlemen have propofed two or three methods of removing the obftruc¬ tion in the nafal dudl3 fomewhat dif¬ ferent from thofe already recited : thefe are, 1. The parting a probe thro*the nafal du£l into the facculus, being intro¬ duced at its orifice behind the os fpongiofum. 2. The injcdion of a fluid by the fame orifice 5 and 3. The pafling a feton from the pun chi m lachrymale fuperius thro the fac and duel into the nofc, there to remain (being occafionally fhift- ed) till the cure is completed. For

Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott.

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