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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    Entropeon. condition of the hair-gland, under the means used, the disease is removed. If a case occurs in which the vitiated site or incurvation of one or more ci‘ia does not admit of correction, the corresponding follicle should be obliterated by repeatedly touching it with a fine caustic pencil. — When the incurvation is depending on a dis- ease of the tarsus, the case must be treated as entropeon. The treatment of the inverted eyelid, upon the plan recommended by Scarpa, will, according to my experience, be effective in nine cases out of ten; that is, by the removal of a fold of skin with a pair of scissars from the surface of the eyelid. The relaxation of the integument operating as a cause of the disease, is more frequent upon the lower than the upper lid, but the operation is applicable to cases originating from other causes. The surgeon should be careful to adapt the po- sition and extent of the wound to the site and degree of the inversion. I have now and then met with a case in which the inversion was clearly depending upon a callous roll of conjunc- tiva at the orbitar edge of the tarsus, in which case the disease was removed by the excision of this roll; of itself a disease requiring such — a remedy, as before noticed. In cases of a circumscribed inversion produced by cicatrix from burn or wound, I have found an operation similar to that of Dr. Crampton, an effective