An enquiry into the causes which have most commonly prevented success in the operation of extracting the cataract : with an account of the means by which they may either be avoided or rectified : to which are added, observations on the dissipation of the cataract, and on the cure of the gutta serena : also, additional remarks on the epiphora, or, watery eye : the whole illustrated with a variety of cases / by James Ware, surgeon.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An enquiry into the causes which have most commonly prevented success in the operation of extracting the cataract : with an account of the means by which they may either be avoided or rectified : to which are added, observations on the dissipation of the cataract, and on the cure of the gutta serena : also, additional remarks on the epiphora, or, watery eye : the whole illustrated with a variety of cases / by James Ware, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of it went properly through the diid:. Af- ter this the watering of the eye, and the difcharge of matter from it, wholly ceafed, and the fight became perfedly flrong and ufeful. CASE vr. » In the beginning of the winter 1793, a lady was attacked, during the time fhe had a violent cold in her head, with an Epiphora ©f the right eye; which, after remaining troublefome many months, at length abated in a confiderable degree without the ufe of any particular remedy. The tears however ilill colleded occafionally in the lachrymal fac, and continued to accumulate, until they cither regurgitated through the pundia in, confequence of the fac's being unable to contain more, or v/ere pufhed through the nafal dud; by the preffure of the finger. The patient was obliged to have recourfe to this laft mentioned mode of obtaining relief many times in the courfe of the day. Injune 1794, in confequence of a frefh cold, the palfage through the nafal dud became wholly N clofcd;