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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    to remove a fmall portion of the integument* of* the lower eye-lid near the inverted hairs. The patient being feated with his head bent backwards, and the eye-lid firmly fixed by an affiftant preffing upon the angles, I made an inci^on in the integuments with the back of a lancet, four lines in extent, immediately below the edge of the eye-lid, and clofe to the tarfus; then having raifed the divided fkin with the forceps, I removed a fmall portion of an oval figure exactly of the fame length, and about, two lines and a half in its greateft breadth: The wound was covered with a flop of linen fpread with digeftive ointment, a comprefs was placed upon the zygoma, and the uniting bandage ap- plied in the direction of the monoculus. On removing the dreffing two days afterwards I found the lips of the woun4 confiderably approx- imated, and the edge of the eye-lid proportion- ately drawn outwards, with the three hairs corre- fponding to it which had been inverted, by which the patient found himfelf gradually relieved from this inconvenience. One hair only, the longed of the three, prefied yet llightly upon the cornea ; I fay flightly, t>ecaufe the patient did not com- plain of it, and the mark of the conjunctiva was now almoft entirely diffipated. The wound was touched on that day and the three follow- ing with the argentum nitratum, in order to de- ftroy a little more of the fubftance of the eye- lid,