A lecture of the anatomy, physiology, & pathology of the eye : which was delivered to the members of the City of London Medical and Chirurgical Society / by Thomas Firth.
- Firth, Thomas
- Date:
- MDCCCXXXI [1831]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A lecture of the anatomy, physiology, & pathology of the eye : which was delivered to the members of the City of London Medical and Chirurgical Society / by Thomas Firth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nea; the choroides with the uvea or iris; and the retina. To thefe may be added, the cap- fular tunics of the crystalline and vitreous hu- mours, which will be taken notice of in the defcription of thofe humours. The Tunica conjunctiva. Some anatomifts divide the tunica conjune tiva, adnata, or as it has been fometimes term- ed, though improperly, albuginea, into diffe- rent membranes. One of thefe is faid to be a continuation of the periofteum lining the focket, the other a continuation of the interna] ; membrane of the eye-lids; both of them are faid to pafs from the edge of the focket over the |f anterior part of the eye to the termination ol the fclerotica in the cornea; and likewife to be I covered with an extreme fine membrane, pro- >•■ ceeding from the fcarfskin of the eye-lids. Bill without purfuing any further account of thefe. p it may be fufficient to obferve, that though 1 the conjunctiva may fometimes admit ol being divided into diftinct lamina;, as may ff be done in other membranes where no fuch diftinction is obferved, yet as the divifion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21633873_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
