An essay on the entropeon, or inversion of the eyelids / by Philip Crampton.

  • Crampton, Philip, Sir, 1777-1858.
Date:
1806
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Credit: An essay on the entropeon, or inversion of the eyelids / by Philip Crampton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proceed from the relaxation of the external skin of the eyelid -jf. These are the principal causes of entropeon, which have been handed down to us from the earliest ages; and our later systematic authors, in recording them unaltered and unimproved^ have, at least, the merit of fidelity. I should not omit to mention two modern theories of the disease which have lately been proposed, one by Mr. B. Bell, the other by Mr. Ware. Mr. Bell thinks, in addition to the causes above enumerated, that the inversion of the tarsus may sometimes be produced ** by an unequal spasmodic exertion of some of the fibres of the orbicularis muscle he does not, however, describe the means of ascertaining the existence of this affection of the muscle, nor does he state that he has ever ob- served it J. Mr. Ware says, it is manifest that t Pili vero, qui in palpebra sunt, duabus de causis oculum irritare consucverunt, nam modo palpebrae superioris summa cutis relaxatur et procedit, quo fit ut ejus pili ad ipsum oculum convertantur, qua non simul cartilage quoque se remisit; modo suo naturali ordine pilonim alius ordo subcrescit, qui protinus intusad oculum tendit.—Celsus de Re Medica, lib.viii. i See B. Bell's System of Surgery, vol. iii. p. 276. c when