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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    and afterwards place a style or tube in the newly ‘The au- thor’s prac- tice. penetration of the os unguis or the breaking through of the bony parietes, but of the re-open-_ ing of the original passage ; which being obli- terated by a morbid structure of the lining mem- brane, of such firmness as to require the employ- ment of force, and to occasion a free hemorrhage. from the nostril, is, in fact, the same thing as an artificial channel. Of the two practices, I de- cidedly prefer the latter; the former is drivel- ling, tedious, and painful to a degree. : Averse to any and every permanent tent, I formerly introduced a probe into the nose for — many days in succession, but the daily increas- ing facility with which it passed was not a com- pensation for the pain it inflicted, and the ulce- ration of the wound by the repeated interruption of the cicatrizing process. The practice which I have long employed, and which I adopted as the most successful, after a trial of the several methods of which I have made mention, the tube only excepted, is too proportion of cases, it has proved successful in curing the disease, both in slight and aggravated forms, in early and advanced stages, without en- rable from the various contrivances for perma-