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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![t «* ] l •f SECT. V, TH E third ftate of this difeafe is (as I have before obferved) that in which the natural paffage is quite ob¬ literated and deftroyed, and in which the bone is fometimes found carious. All the methods hitherto deferibed are calculated to preferve the natural paf- fages, and to derive the lachrymal fluid again thro* them, and in this they are fre¬ quently fuccefsful; but it fometimes hap¬ pens,in cafes where the bone is carious, or from great inflammation, or the too free ufe of efcharotic dreflings, that the fac- culus and du£t become floughy, and the prefervation of the natural paffage is im¬ practicable, 1 « When this is the cafe, all that the art of furgery can do is to attempt the formation of an artificial one. I HAVE](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0070.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
