Volume 1
Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott.
- Percivall Pott
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ *7 ] This opening fhould be made by inci- fion; and authors have been very parti¬ cular with regard to the place, manner, and form of it. * They have directed it to be made in a femiiunar form, with its concave part refpedting the eye, and the union of the lids is to be exa&ly oppofite to the center of the incifion $ this lunated figure was defigned to correfpond with the courfe of the fibres of the orbicular mufele, a tranfverfe incifion of which, or of its ten¬ don, was thought to produce an inver- fion of the eye lid 5 but as this is now known not to be the confequence of fuch divifion, no fuch regard need be paid to this mufele or its tendon, the latter of which muft always be cut thros as it lies upon the furface of the faccu- lus 5 all that is neccfiary to obferve, is to keep the incifion at a proper diftance from the juncture of the eye-lids, and to make it large enough 5 its form may full as well be ftraight asfemilunar,and the bcft inftru-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
