A new and easy method of curing the fistula lacrymalis : to which is added, a dissertation on the epiphora vera, or, true watery eye, and the zeropthalmia, or dry eye / by Jonathan Wathen ; also, an appendix, on the treatment of patients after the operation for the cataract, in which are shewn, the evils attendant on long confinement and continued bandages, and an opposite practice recommended, illustrated with cases, by Jonathan Wathen Phipps, surgeon.

Date:
1792
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Credit: A new and easy method of curing the fistula lacrymalis : to which is added, a dissertation on the epiphora vera, or, true watery eye, and the zeropthalmia, or dry eye / by Jonathan Wathen ; also, an appendix, on the treatment of patients after the operation for the cataract, in which are shewn, the evils attendant on long confinement and continued bandages, and an opposite practice recommended, illustrated with cases, by Jonathan Wathen Phipps, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ^ ] the feclufion of the eyes from light, and the long-continued bandages become ufe- lefs, and the patient is not only liberated from much fuffering, but many of the accidents attendant on extraction are pre- vented. The event fully anfwered my expecta- tions, and proved the utility of this treat- ment. One theoretical objection to it might arife : In cafes of hypopyon, the degree of violence offered to the eye is much inferior to that in extraction, the cornea in the former being the only part wounded ; whereas in the latter, the iris is alfo deranged, the capfule rent, the cryftaline humour brought away, the vitreous difplaced, and a portion of it fometimes loft. To this it may be an- fwered, that when the operation is well performed, a lofs of the vitreous fel- dom takes place, and that the difcompo- fure of the other parts does not in the lead: militate againft the plan; for in both cafes, the re-union of the cornea being the deiired