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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    of furgery ; but in none have they been greater than in the theory at leaf];, for treating the fiflula lacrymalis. Every pra&itioner now endeavours to regain or reflore the natural paffage of the tears into the nofe ; or, when that cannot be obtained, to make an artificial one through the os unguis. Neither of thefe methods, however well defigned, have hitherto been attended with certain fuccefs. The firft has afforded little fecurity againft a relapfe ; and the fecond, even when a tube is paffed thro* the os unguis, as recommended by Mr. Heifler, is fcarcely ever effectual. The reftoration of the natural dud, afforded the only rational profpe£t of fuccefs : but as every attempt of this kind had yet been attended with great uncertainty, not a fingle relource remained but the infer- tion of an artificial tube, or lining, within the natural du£t; the folid fides of which, and its large canal, might be fufficient to refill every future tendency of the confti- tution