A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery / by T. Wharton Jones.

  • Jones, Thomas Wharton, 1808-1891
Date:
1847
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Credit: A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery / by T. Wharton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vesicles or phlyctenula on the cutaneous surface of the eye- lid near its margin. 2275. Vesicles or phlyctenulas, containing a watery fluid, are sometimes met with single or several together, and of a size from that of a mustard seed to the size of a pea. The evacuation of the fluid by a puncture with a lancet is some- times sufficient for the removal of these vesicles; if not, the vesicle is to be snipped off with the scissors. Warts on the eyelids. 2276. Warts are not uncommon on the cutaneous surface of the eyelids or on their border. 2277- If pedunculated, it is best to remove them by liga- ture, or at once to snip them off with the scissors, and then to touch the root with strong acetic acid or lunar caustic. If they have a broad base, their removal may be effected by the escharotics alone. Horny-like excrescences connected with the skin of the eyelids. 2278. One of the minute sebaceous follicles of the skin of the eyelids, especially of the lower, may become enlarged, and give out a morbid secretion, which, hardening as it is produced, does not fall away on being thrust out by suc- cessive additions, but forms the horny-like excrescences under consideration. 2279. The portion of skin in which the excrescence has its root, is to be snipped off in a fold with the scissors. Encysted steatomatous tumour. 2280. A small white pearly-looking tumour, of about the size of a pin’s head, called milium, often presents itself in greater or less numbers in the skin of the cheeks and eye- lids, situated apparently immediately underneath the epider- mis, which they raise up and through which they shine.