A description of the human eye, and its adjacent parts; : together with their principal diseases, and the methods proposed for relieving them. / By Joseph Warner, F.R.S.

  • Joseph Warner
Date:
MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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Credit: A description of the human eye, and its adjacent parts; : together with their principal diseases, and the methods proposed for relieving them. / By Joseph Warner, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] ■ The orbits are placed on each fide the fupe« rior and lateral parts of the nofe ; and are com- pofed of the feven following bones: to wit, Os Frontis; Os Sphenoides ; Os Ethmoides; Os Maxillare Superius; Os Unguis; Os Malae; Os Palati. The parts that are adapted to Vifion are, by anatomifts and furgeons, in general, treated of under two heads; and by them are diftinguifh- ed, firft, into thofe parts that are aiding and affifting in vifion, but which are not concerned in forming the globe of the eye ; fecondly, into thofe parts that are employed in the texture and compofition of the globe of the eye, and which are indifpenfably and immediately neceflary to fight. The parts that are affifting in vifion are the Supercilia, or eye-brows; the Cilia, or eye- lafhes ; the Palpebrae, or eye-lids, together with the mufcles of the Palpebrae: The Glan¬ dule Sebaceae of the eye-fids ; otheiwife termed the Ciliary glands, or Meibomius’s glands. The Pun&a Ciliaria; the Caruncula Lacry- malis; the Valvula Semilunaris; the Punflra Lacrymalia; and the fix mufcles of the globe of the eye, together with a confiderable bed of fat, in which thefe mufcles, with the optic
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