An operation for the radical cure of stricture of the lachrymal duct : with description of a stricturotome / by Charles Hermon Thomas.

  • Thomas, Charles Hermon.
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[1911]
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    AN OPERATION FOR THE RADICAL CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE LACHRYMAL DUCT, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A STRIC- TUROTOME* By Charles Hermon Thomas, M. D., of Philadelphia. Felloiu of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, etc. All who have busied themselves with the surgery of the lachrymal passages must be aware that surgeons have not agreed upon a satisfactory method for the treatment of stricture of the lachrymal duct. With respect to the possibility of radical cure, the attitude of many is one of discouragement—perhaps even of disgust. Of all procedures in use, none is so generally employed as dilatation by probes. But the length of time which this method of treatment requires, the amount of trouble it involves, together with the uncertainty of permanent good results—all of which its advocates admit—make it desirable that some more effective procedure be adopted. Influenced by the results obtained by French surgeons in internal urethrotomy, Stilling, then of Hesse-Cassel, published a brochure in 1868, detailing a new method of treating stricture of the lachrymal passages by internal incision, an operation devised by him, and which he was the first to make effective. My attention was at once attracted to this paper. The operation strongly appealed to me as a good one, and * Read before the American Medical Association, Section of Ophthalmology, 189a.