Remarks on the fistula lachrymalis; with the description of an operation considerably different from that commonly used; and cases annexed in proof of its utility; to which are added, observations on hæmorrhoids; and additional remarks on the ophthalmy / By James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Remarks on the fistula lachrymalis; with the description of an operation considerably different from that commonly used; and cases annexed in proof of its utility; to which are added, observations on hæmorrhoids; and additional remarks on the ophthalmy / By James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forty times in quick fucceflion ; wiping the face perfectly dry immediately after it has been ufed. A very fmall fhare of ex- perience, however, in fuch cafes will thew that this remedy is not at all times com- petent to the cure of a weak fight. When therefore there is no vifible caufe for the weaknefs, and when the ufual ftrengthening remedies have been found rather to increafe than to leffen the debility, it appears to me highly proper to have recourfe to thofe that are of a directly contrary nature. A refort in cafes of difficulty to remedies that are of a nature oppofite to thofe that have before been ufed, is by no means a new practice; and in various diforders, me- dical as well as chirurgical, the adoption of it has been productive of the beft effects *. I muft * It was the obfervation of Afclepiades, who lived in the time of Mithridate, and was one of the firft Greek phyficians who practifed medicine at Rome, that if a man attacked with a phrenfy came under his care, he would treat him in a particular way, which he fpecifies; but if the patient had been previoufly under the care of any other phyfician, and a treatment, fimilar to that which he pro- ' pofed,