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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![[ 17 ] wards getting at the dud and removing the obftrudion 5 when this point is ob¬ tained, the fore fhould be permitted to contrad, by gradually leffening the dref- fings until it is quite clofed, which in many cafes it may very fafely be fuffered to do, and a perfed cure will be the con- fequence, I t is alfo true that many of thefe cafes prove extremely troublefome, espe¬ cially in fcrophulous habits 5 in fome of which the cavity of the facculus is ,41 fo difeafed as to be filled up with fun- * gus, and to require the ufe of an efeha- rotic. % Of all the medicines of this kind the lapis lunaris or lunar cauftic is by much the befi, as the pain it gives is momentary, and as it leaves no hardnefs; but if it is ufed in this cafe, the eye mufi be defend¬ ed by clofing the lids, and holding a piece of rag tight in the corner to I catch](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
