An essay on the entropeon, or inversion of the eyelids / by Philip Crampton.

  • Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet
Date:
1806
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Credit: An essay on the entropeon, or inversion of the eyelids / by Philip Crampton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3^ contracted state of the conjunctiva should be able to produce that form of the disease in which a double row of hairs appear to proceed from the tarsus, the tarsus retaining its position. But a more attentive observation will, I have no doubt, remove the difficulty. The i^pder row of hairs are neither supernu- merary nor displaced with regard to the tarsus, though their curvature is altered by lying upon the convexity of the cornea *. In such cases of the disease as I have had an opportunity of ob- serving, the cartilage was evidently inverted, and if any hairs were supernumerary, they were those which grew in the natural direction of the ciliae ; but I am rather inclined to think that in such cases the inversion of the cartilage is not complete ; the inner range of hairs alone touch the cornea, and are retained there by the inclina- tion of the tarsus, and by the humidity of the eye ; the upper ranges of the ciliae, still retaining * Professor Scarpa does not allow that there is ever a su- peniumerary row of hairs, but thinks that in what has been termed distichiasis, the hairs are displaced without inversion of the tarsus. their
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