A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by James Briggs.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1806
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Credit: A treatise on the principal diseases of the eyes / by Antonio Scarpa ; translated from the Italian, with notes, by James Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Indeed in every cafe of imperfect trichiafis, in confequence of a cicatrix of the internal furfacc of the edge of the eye-lid, a very flight exami- nation will fliow, that the tarfus and cilia are every where in their natural fituation, except oppofite the part where the ulcers had formerly exifted; and if the eye-lid be everted, it will be evident that the internal membrane near that part of the margin correfponding to the feat of the trichiafis is pale, rigid, and callous, and that from this contraction the inverfion of its carti- laginous border is evidently derived, as well as the morbid inclination of the hairs towards the globe of the ey£; Befides thefe caufes, there are others capable of producing the fame injurious effect. In the firft place the chronic ophthalmia of long {land- ing, as that which arifes fromferofula orthefmall- pox, which becoming gradually worfe and worfe, keeps the integuments of the eye-lid for a eonfi- derable time in a ftate of diflenfion and oedema, and induces a relaxation of them, by which the cartilaginous border of the eye-lid ultimately lof- ing a proper and firm fupport in the integuments, inclines towards the eye-ball, and afterwards turns in wards, and draws the cilia along with it in the fame improper direction.* The fame unpleafant effect, independently of the relaxation of the in- teguments, is frequently produced by a foftening of the cartilage of the tarfus, in confequence of a h 3 copious