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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    ‘¢ any certain method of preventing the © canula either from rifing and forcing its ‘* way out at the corner of the eye, or ‘¢ from pafling down, and coming out at ‘¢ the nofe *.”” He then adverts to various forms of tubes which he had delineated in his former volume, and adds, ‘* that ‘* the invention of M. Pellier appears to ‘« be much fuperior to any of them.” In one inftance, Mr. Bell fays, he knew it to have anfwered compleatly, though eighteen months had elapfed when he publifhed the fecond edition of this vo- lume, from whence I extract the prefent remark. The peculiarity in the form of M, Pel. lier’s tubes confifts in their having two projecting edges; one at the top forming a kind of brim, and another nearly mid- way between this and the lower end of the inftrument. By means of thefe, when it is properly fixed in the paflage where it * Bell’s Syftem of Surgery, vol. 4. page 55. oe ane is