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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    inch long and half a line thick, contained in the fold of the fungus. The whole of the Superfluous part of the internal membrane being how removed, the eye-lid defcended over the eye fo as to cover it conveniently. The opera- tion was not followed by any unpleafant fymp- tom, and 10 days afterwards the child left the hofpital, fo far cured that no defect remained, except a fmall elevation of the eye-lid near the external opening where the abfeefs had burft. As there can be no doubt that this piece of ilraw had prevented the ulcer of the eye-lid from healing, during eight months after the burfting of the abfeefs, fo it is lingular that this extraneous body mould have been forced through the internal membrane of the eye-lid, without the child having been awaked by it. Case XXIV. Giufeppe Antonia Scanarotti, aged 36 years, living in the vicinity of Stradella, had a wart for a confiderable time near the inferior orbital arch of the right fide, which in January 1795 began to be painful. A furgeon in that neigh- bourhood applied a cerate upon it, the efFecl: of which was, that two days afterwards he was feized with an eryfipelas, which extended oyer the whole of the right fide of the face. The furgeon then altered his plan, and as foon as the