A new method of curing the fistula lacrymalis.

  • Wathen, Jonathan.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A new method of curing the fistula lacrymalis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The cafe of exoflofis is uncommon, find does not properly come under either of the four ftates which I have affigned to the fiflula lacrymaHs. I fliall neverthelefs recommend a, mode of treatment, which I have in feveral inftances found fuceefsful, in my own prad^iice. Apply a drill, of a fmall fize, through the external wound, in fuch a diredlion, that when worked it may make a paffage through the offified part, precifely in the corurfe of the natural dud. Repeat this procefs by a larger inftrument of the fame kind, till the perforation is as large, or rather larger, than the original and obli- terated paffage. The operator will know for a certainty when the perforator has . performed its office, and made its way into the nofe, by the removal of all refift- ance to the point of the inftrument. The aperture through the exoftofis, if very large (that is, i-8th and a half dia- meter, at leaft) may perhaps anfwer the end;