A treatise on the diseases of the eye and their remedies : to which is prefixed, the anatomy of the eye, the theory of vision, and the several species of imperfect sight : illustrated with copper plates / by Geo. Chandler, surgeon.

  • Chandler, George, 1915-1992
Date:
MDCCLXXX [1780]
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the eye and their remedies : to which is prefixed, the anatomy of the eye, the theory of vision, and the several species of imperfect sight : illustrated with copper plates / by Geo. Chandler, surgeon. 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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    left the furgeon fhould be difturbed at the time of performing it, and on account of other in- conveniences that might otherwife enfue. Of the operation by deprejfion. When none of the objections abovemen* ed exift, the operation by couching or depref- fion may be performed in the following manner* Having placed your patient in a convenient light, and in a chair fuitable to the height of that you yourfelf fit in, let a pillow or two be placed behind his back, in iuch a manner, that the body bending forward, the head may approach near to you, then inclining the head a little backward upon the bread of your affiftant, and covering the other eye fo as to prevent its rolling, let the affiftant lift up the fupenor eyelid, and yourfelf deprefs a little the inferior one; this done, refting your elbow upon your knee, or (which keeps the hand much fteadier) a table of a convenient height, placed on the fide of your patient, and your lower fingers upon his cheek, defire him to look ftedfaftly towards his noftrils, and then ftrike the needle through the tunica conjunc- tiva, fomething lefs than one tenth of an inch from the cornea, even with the middle of the pupil,