[The dictionary of surgery:] or the young surgeon's pocket assistant / [Benjamin Lara].

  • Lara, Benjamin, 1770?-1848
Date:
[1796?]
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Credit: [The dictionary of surgery:] or the young surgeon's pocket assistant / [Benjamin Lara]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ART / troublefome, and produces great uneafinefs. The upper eye-lid appears watery, and cannot be elevated; the eyes are very tender, diftilling a rheum, efpecially in the morning if expofed to light. In order to the cure, an incilion is made through the Ikin of the eye- lid, and the cyft is to be diffedled out. Mr. St. Yves notices a complaint on the edge of the eye-lids, or on the tunica conjundliva, which re- fembles the bladders that appear on the Ikin after a burn ; he calls thefe alfo hydatis. The method of cure which he propofes, is merely to open the tumour with the point of a lancet. But if the circumference of the globe is covered with w'ater, the conjundHva will be inflamed, and in this cafe bleeding, purging, and a collyrium of Aq. Calcis will be neceflary. Vide Wallts% Nofologia Methodica Oculorum, and Beir% Surgery, vol. i. Arteriotomia, from ap7Ha, an artery^ and Tfpxvwf to cut. Is the opening of an artery for the difcharge of blood. This operation is never performed, but on the different branches of the temporal artery. When the artery lies fuperficial, it may be opened with one pufli of the lancet, as in venefedtion, but when the artery is covered with cellular fubftance, it muft be laid fairly open, before the orifice is made with the lancet. The artery fliouldbe opened in an oblique diredtion, neither quite acrofs, nor diredlly longitudinal. If the blood does not flow freely, prefs the artery immediately above the orifice, between it and the correfponding veins. Compreflion, by a linen comprefs and a linen roller, is generally fuffi- £ient to flop the evacuation, previoufly clearing the orifice from blood, and covering it with a bit of flicking plafter. Should this not fucceed, you may either cut the artery entirely acrofs at the orifice, fe- cure it with a ligature, or by conflant and regular prefTure with a bandage, obliterate the cavity of the artery, where the operation was performed. Vide Beli'% Surgery, vol. i. Whiter Surgery, p. 178.