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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    [ *« ] the time of introdu&ion ; for then the pipe and the pundlular tube form a direct line with each other. Whichever of thefe methods be ufed, and however fuccelstul it proves, it fhould not be immediately relinquifhed, but occafionally repeated, in order to prevent a return of the obflruc- tion, which fometimes will happen. It is requifite in this operation, as well as that of the fyringe, when ufed with a view of cure, to flop the upper pundtum with a fiver bridle, for the reafons al- ready alhgned. Having mentioned the two preceding precedes as of ufe, in fometimes removing recent obftru£tions of the lacrymal du£b, with fome degree of approbation, I (hall conclude it by an obfervation, That all Mr. AneFs other fchemes; fuch as pall- ing a miniature probe, by the pun&a, into the lacrymal fac, and, through its du6t, into the nofe*, &c.; M. La Foret’s alfo, efpecially * Though it he not impoffible thus to pafs the miniature probe into the lacrymal fac, and through the