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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![1 I f4 ] If to deftroy the natural paffagcs and to fill up the cavity with new fiefli was the true curative intention, this method of drefling might be proper 5 but as that Is not the intention, there feems much Impropriety in It. The point aimed at, is to obtain a free difcharge for the lachrymal fluid from the eye into the nofe through the natural conduit, the prefervation of which is often in our power 5 but this method of cramming in fo much lint, and dre fling with efcharotics, fruftrates the proper intention, renders a Ample cafe complex, and at beft retards what it is defigned to expedite. All drefllngs are in faft extraneous bodies; and therefore in parts that are of quick fenfation, cafiiy irritated, and liable to be inflamed,cannot be too foft or light: fuppuration is an aft of nature not of art, and is always beft performed when the former is leaft difturbed 5 whatever lies I eafieft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
