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Title: The elements of surgery : in which are contained all the essential and necessary principles of the art ; with an account of the nature and treatment of chirurgical disorders, and a description of the operations, bandages, instruments, and dressings, according to the modern and most approved practice ; adapted to the use of the camp and navy, as well as of the domestic surgeon ; illustrated with twenty-five copper-plates
Year: 1746 (1740s)
Authors: Mihles, Samuel
Subjects: Surgical Procedures, Operative Surgery Surgery, Operative Surgery, Military
Publisher: London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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-lia, for injecting warm water, or fome other de-terging liquor, in order to cleanfe and heal thofepaffages into the nofe, when they are obftructedor ulcerated in the fiftula lachrymalis. C denotesa fmall capillary probe of gold or filver wire tobe introduced by the puncta lachrymalia, Fig. 3.lb through the lachrymal ducts cc into the nofeby the canal de, for clearing the paffages whenthe refiftance is greater than will give way to theforce of an injected fluid. Fig. 5. Reprefents a fpring fpeculum oculimade of filver or fteel, capable of opening moreor lefs by the button B, which Aides along a flitin the handle, to fupport the eye-lids in couching,fcarifying, or performing any other operation up-on the eye. The inftrument is made fo as to flyopen by its own elafticity, if the branches of thehandle were not confined by the button B. Fig. 6. Reprefents the fituation of the lachrymalpoints a #, ducts c c, and fack d, with the nafalcanal ef, as they are difpofed with refpect to the Tab x
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( 3«9 ) the eye reprefented before by Fig. 3. A lachry-mal fiftula then is an obftru<5tion and inflamma-tion with or without an ulceration in fome of thefepaffages, whereby the tears are obliged to rundown the cheek, inftead of being abforbed andconveyed into the nofe by the opening of the canal/; and therefore the feat of this diforder maybe either in the duels c c, in the fack d, or inthe canal e. Fig. 7. Reprefents a lachrymal fiftula in the up-per duct a, and in the lower duel: b. Fig. 8 and 9. Reprefent the fame diforder inthe faccus lachrymalis. Fig. 10. Reprefents an inftrument for makinga, compreffure upon the faccus lachrymalis, madeof thin pliable Iteel covered with velvet, to beadapted and fattened upon the forehead by threepieces of ribband tied about the head, fo that thebutton or plate of the fcrew may fall upon thelachrymal fack. Mr. Sharp, from whom this in-ftrument is taken, tells us that the branch of ironwhich fupports the fcrew muft be foft enough tobend, witho

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