Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids: with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and a description of ... new instruments & operations for and on cataract / By William Adams.

  • Adams, William, Sir, 1783-1827
Date:
1812
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Credit: Practical observations on ectropium, or eversion of the eye-lids: with the description of a new operation for the cure of that disease; on the modes of forming an artificial pupil; and a description of ... new instruments & operations for and on cataract / By William Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    burgh Medical and Surgical Journal; but having been sent too late for the last quar- terly Number of 1811, I withdrew it, and have since added the chapters on Artificial Pupil and Cataract. The method proposed for the cure of Ectropium has neither been described nor practised hitherto, as far as I have been able to learn. To ascertain this, I have examined the works of the most eminent authors who have written on the subject, and have made extensive inquiries among my medical friends. Although I am not indebted to any author, for the revival and improvement of Che- selden’s operation for closed pupil, yet I think it proper to mention, that some time _ after I had practised the method of intro- ducing the knife with its cutting edge backwards, to prevent the escape of the aqueous humour, I found the same mode described in Heister’s Surgery. I have, in the chapter on Cataract, described the operations applicable to all the species ?