Observations on the treatment of the epiphora, or watery eye, and on the fistula lacrymalis : together with remarks on the introduction of the male catheter, and on the treatment of haemorrhoids / by the late James Ware ; edited by his son Martin Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on the treatment of the epiphora, or watery eye, and on the fistula lacrymalis : together with remarks on the introduction of the male catheter, and on the treatment of haemorrhoids / by the late James Ware ; edited by his son Martin Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    peared to me to be similar to this above- mentioned, and I have flattered myself, in one or two instances, that it was attended with good effects. But it is equally true, that in the greater number in which I used it the experiment failed. And it ought to be remembered, that in the case related by Mr. Blizard, as well as in those in which I used the quicksilver myself, the injection of water in Anel's method had not been tried. If, therefore, we admit its efficacy in the cases above-mentioned, we are still, I think, unsupported in giving it a preference to Anel's method, since the latter, if tried, might very probably have been attended with equal success. In a visit I made to Paris in the course of the year 1791, I had an opportunity of con- versing on the subject of lachrymal obstruc- tions, as well as on many others which relate to disorders of the eye, with Messieurs Grandjean and Monsieur Arrachart, oculists of considerable celebrity in that city. By them I was informed that the practice of injecting water through the puncta lachry-