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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![[ 7f ] * The extream thinnefs of the bone renders the perforation of it a very eafy matter, and if the breach made in it is of any tolerable fize, I am not inclined to think that it is ever filled up again by any bony fubftance 5 when this artificial paflage is clofed again, it is by the union of the membrane on each fide of it, and therefore the furgeon’s bufinefs in this cafe is to make a pretty large open¬ ing in the bone, and by rendring the edges on each fide callous to prevent the orifice from being again clofed. »■ • . ■*. For this purpofe, different people have ufed different inftruments, fuch as a large ftrong probe, an inftrument like a gimbiet, the curved trocar, &c. lire, each of which, if dextroufly and pro¬ perly applied, will ferve the purpofe very well 5 the great neceffary caution is fo to apply the inftrument to the bone as to pierce through that part of it which lies immediately behind the facculus la-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785406_0001_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
