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.
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- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ ] When the lids once get this unhappy propenfity, the eye will, without the moft vigorous exertions, be inevitably loft. I have known this difeafe fo ftrong, that all means fhort of an operation to efFed its cure have proved unfuccefsful. I muft add, that I do not recoiled a Tingle patient who has unfortunately been the fubjed of this accident, who had, prior to the operation, any tendency to an entropium. The eyes being totally deprived of their natural element (if I may fo term the light) and their feclufion from the atmofpheric air, muft alfo be highly de- trimental. From the inflammation neceflarily in- duced by the operation, the heat of the eye is much encreafed, and the bandages tend ftill farther to retain it in a degree of temperature much above that of na- ture; and thus add to the very inflamma- tion they were defigned to diminifh. G3 Another](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28042761_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
