Practical suggestions for the treatment of lachrymal diseases / by C.R. Agnew.

  • Agnew, Cornelius Rea, 1830-1888.
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[1871]
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Credit: Practical suggestions for the treatment of lachrymal diseases / by C.R. Agnew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The American Practitioners JANUARY, 1871. Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.—Ruskin. ®ommunicafiorrsc PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TREAT¬ MENT OF LACHRYMAL DISEASES. BY C. R. AGNEW, M. D. The title of my communication will relieve me from the necessity of attempting a systematic dissertation upon the general subject of lachrymal diseases, and show that my present purpose is to lay before the readers of the American Practitioner a few practical suggestions, in such a manner as to make them the property of all. The commonest form in which incipient lachrymal disease presents itself to the practitioner is that of the “ weeping eye,” as it is familiarly jcalled, so that a few words upon its pathology and treatment would naturally introduce our theme. It is observed that the patient begins to be annoyed by having the lachrymal secretion increased so as to overflow the edge of the lower lid and trickle down the cheek, Vol. Ill—1