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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    On the ioth, nth, and isth,-nothing parti- cularly occurred, except that the cicatrix began to be formed near the internal margin of the tarfus. On the 13th, 14th, and 15th, it was neceflary to touch the ulcer towards the internal angle of the eye with the argentum nitratum. On 21 ft the wound was completely healed, by employing a warn, confifting of the aquacalcis and mel rofse, three times a day. The eye-lid had gained the higheft degree of elevation it was capable of attaining, and precifely as it is feen in the 2d figure of the 2d plate. The dif- ference, though very inconfiderable, which is alfo obfervable in the figure, was proportionate to the lofs of integuments before fuftained in the part where the cicatrix was formed, a lofs not reparable by any ingenuity hitherto devifed. By this operation, however, the deformity and peeping of the eye were removed. Case XXV. Maria Terefa Zeccone, of Marcignago, was afflicted at the age of fix years with a malignant carbuncle on the inferior and fomewhat lateral external part of the lower eye-lid of the right fide, which produced a confiderable destruction of the integuments. The deformed and tenfe cicatrix wMshi fu€£.eeded it, occafioned after- wards