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Credit: A new method of curing the fistula lacrymalis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 7° ] foon return again. The eye is not fo dry as in' the former inftance ; and though it is not attended with great pain, it is the caiife of fo much uneafinefs, and occa- fional impediment to the fight, as to render the patient unhappy. I impute this com- plaint to fome difeafe of the conjun6:iva, producing a morbid fecretion like the for- ^ fner; and the more efpecially as it is Accompanied with a diminution of th^ tears. Both however may arife from a general ill habit, or fimilar diforders of the other fecretory organs of the body: but whether their fource be local or con- ftitutiofiaif, the to|)icai treatment muft be neatly the fame; and as contrary to that of the Epiphora, as the difeafes them- felves, 'the Cure, AS the varnifh covering the cornea, and the cremor which lodges within and upon the edge of the lower eye-lid, ad- here to thofe parts only, becaufe they ar€ not as formerly wafhed away by the tears^ it](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21633927_0090.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
