Note on the treatment of chronic dacryo-cystitis by extirpation of the lacrimal sac / by J. B. Lawford.

  • Lawford, J. B., active 1886.
Date:
[1896?]
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    F ?3 Reprinted from Vol. XXVI of' St. Thomas's Hospital Reports.'] NOTE ON THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DACllYO-CrSTlTIS BY EXTIIIPATION OF THE LACRIMAL SAC. By J. B. LAWFOED, T.E.C.S., OPHTHALMIC SUKGIiON TO THE HOSPITAL. Cases of chronic inflammation of the lacrimal sac are often difficult and always troublesome to deal with. In the more common instances, in which the condition is secondary to partial obstruction of the nasal duct, treatment such as dilatation of the constricted canal by probiug or the inser- tion of a style, and the application to the lacrimal sac, by syringing, of antiseptic solutions, if these measxires can he regularly and persistentlij carried out, will in the majority of cases lead to cure, or at all events to marked amelioration ot the symptoms. In a certain proportion of cases, liow- ever, such prolonged treatment is impracticable for va.rious reasons In young children and some timorous adults the use ot lacrimal probes cannot be undertaken without the aid ot a general anaesthetic,' and there are grave objections to the administration of a general ana^stlietic, say twice a week lor many weeks. Again, among hospital patients the 1 The application of coo.ino does not even diminish the pain of forcible dila tation of a stricturcd nasal duct. loiciDit dila-