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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![[«] wrong, and therefore pra&ifed only by the ignorant, yet the fame event is of¬ ten brought about, when it is not in¬ tended. It is ftill a cuftom with many, af¬ ter they have opened the fac, to fill the cavity of it with lint, either in the form of tents or doflils, and generally to charge thefe with a medicine of the ef- charotic kind, fuch as mercurius corro- fivus ruber, either in powder or in oint¬ ment 5 by which means the inflamma¬ tion is increafed, the skin hardened, and the infide of the fac rendered floughy, and put under a neceflity of calling off, i ■ ' This manner of drefllng is derived from the antient method of treating this difeafe while it was fuppofed to be an abfcefs of the caruncle with a carious bone underneath, and has been conti¬ nued with defign to deftroy callofity, gnd procure a more firm incarnation. If](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
