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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    [ ] ra Vera. The firft is included in the prefent fubjedl; but the laid named being of a very different nature, both in its ori- gin and effedts, I (hall defer what I have further to fay on it, to the end of this Differtation ; in which fome pages will be devoted to its confideration. If the Epiphora be caufed by a relaxa- tion of the pundtular tubes, tonic collyria of the cold infulion of bark, &c. will fre- quently prove ufeful, and reftore their loft adtion. If thefe tubes are comprefled by hordeola, encyfted or velicular tu- mours, &c. their removal will effedt the cure. Ifobftrudted or collapfed, the pair- ing Anel’s probes a few times, will be effedtual. Thefe are fome of the means which may be ufed with propriety when the epiphora is occalioned by a defedt in the pundtular tubes : but this I have lel- dom known to happen, except from ex- ternal injuries ; as burns, wounds, &c. An obftrudtion in the lacrymal dudt is, however, much more frequently the caufe of that epiphora, which, for diftindtion’s