Volume 1

Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott.

  • Percivall Pott
Date:
1758
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on that disorder of the corner of the eye, commonly called fistula lachrymalis / by Percivall Pott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These two fluids, pus and mucus, differ fo widely from each other in their nature, conftitution, lources, purpofes, and effects, that the diftinguifhing them properly from each other feems to be a matter of no fmall importance. If I conceive rightly, mucus confi- dered in a general fenfe is the effed of a natural fecretion, made by glands, mem¬ branes or other bodies appointed for that purpofe $ and is fo far from being originally the confequence of difeafe, that in a proper quantity it is abfolutdy neceflary for fome of the moft impor¬ tant purpofes of the animal ceconomy 5 which purpofes, when this fluid is quite deficient, are ill-executed, and fome kind of difeafe is produced. Whoever will refled on the ufes of this fluid in the inteftines, in the joints, in the fheaths or capful# of tendons fub- jed to much or ftrong adion, in the fi- nus of the skull which ferve the purpofes