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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    merit height, with the head raifed, and firmly held by an affiftant placed behind, the furgeon Should turn out the hairs which irritate the eye with the ppint of a probe, then with the forceps, fuch as are ufed for anatomical purpofes, or with the point of the fore-finger and thumb, which anfwers equally well, and in many cafes even better, he lhould raife a fold of the integuments of the affected eye-lid, being particularly careful that the part taken hold of correfpond; exactly to the middle of the fpace occupied by the trichiafis; fince, as I have already obferved, the whole of the tarfus is fometimes turned inwards, at other times one half of it, and occafionally only a third part of it. The furgeon mould yaife the fold of the integuments with his left hand, more or lefs, according to the greater or ]efs degree of relaxation of the integuments of the eye-lid, and inverfion of the tarfus, and for this evident reafon, that the extent of the incifion is always proportionate to the quantity pf fkin raifed. If the patient be an adult, when the fold of the fkrn has been raifed to a certain extent, he-mould be defired to open the eye, and if in this ftate the tarfus and cilia refume their natural fituation, the fold of the integuments will be Sufficiently elevated for the purpofe. As children very feldom fubmit to fuch an ex- periment, we are under the neceffity of doing it by guefs. The forceps of Bartifch of Verduin, and 7 thofc