A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment: to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ / By Benjamin Travers.

  • Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A synopsis of the diseases of the eye, and their treatment: to which are prefixed, a short anatomical description and a sketch of the physiology of that organ / By Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the regulation of the seats of the patient and the surgeon, the light and firm support of the upper lid, the calm and easy penetration, and the quick and steady passage of the knife across the chamber, and without a pause, through the opposite border of the membrane, so as to an- ticipate the escape of the humor, and preserve the iris in sit ; the deliberate completion of the section, all pressure being removed, either by the progress of the knife, or by a clean back stroke, or by the aid of the finger-nail dividing the cornea upon its edge, as may be most expe- dient, are, in brief, the material points of the operation. I will only add the capsule should be freely lacerated in the centre, not incised concentrically to the lower border of the pupil. It would scarcely be credited by a by-stander who saw the operation happily executed upon a steady and well-formed eye, that it presented any difficulty ; a conclusion applied to every thing well done, whether warranted or not. But the incidental embarrassments are too fre- quent and numerous to admit of being always anticipated, and the only security against them is the constant habit of practising the operation, and the confidence thence acquired, tempered with a due sense of responsibility. Habit will make any man ambi-dexter; and the rest for the elbow, so much insisted upon, having % 2