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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ >°4 ] felf under our care. The operation was performed with the moft perfect fuccefs. The fame treatment was here purfued as in the laft cafe. He was confined to his bed only the firfl: day; the fihade was fubftituted in the place of bandages on the fecond, and the application of the thebaic timflure never omitted. The in- flammation was very flight, and on the twelfth day, he went out and walked about as ufual. The pupils were per- fectly round, and no veftige of the ope- ration remains. His fight is in every refpeCt perfeCt. It would be thought need-lets to add other cafes; they would be but repetitions of thofe already given : many of a prior, and fome of a later date, wheie the fuc- cefs has been fimilar, might otherwife have been adduced. Sufficient may have been faid to prove the beneficial effe&s of the treatment recommended, and to (hew its fuperiority over the former pra&ice, by obviating many of thofe inconvenien- ces to which that was fubjeCl, and by relieving the patients from much uneafi- nefs and pain. the END.