The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . s of the ciliae, the onlv method upon which the sb^htestreliance can be placed is cauterization of a sufficientlv active character todestroy the bulbs completely. Disticliiasis—, double, and , a row—designates the existence of adouble row of eyelashes, one of which grows inward. The treatment of thesecond, or inner row, is similar to that just mentioned as demanded bv Tri-ch


The principles and practice of surgery: embracing minor and operative surgery : with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860 : arranged for the use of students (Volume 2) . s of the ciliae, the onlv method upon which the sb^htestreliance can be placed is cauterization of a sufficientlv active character todestroy the bulbs completely. Disticliiasis—, double, and , a row—designates the existence of adouble row of eyelashes, one of which grows inward. The treatment of thesecond, or inner row, is similar to that just mentioned as demanded bv Tri-chiasis, the employment of a magnifying glass being often useful in detectingthe positions of some of the lashes. ° ENCANTHUS.—SYMBLEPHARON. 79 § 8.—Encanthns. This complaint—named from its posiHon, £v, in, zav9«c, the angle of theeye—consists in an enlargement or degeneration of the caruncula lachry-malis. When requisite, the tumor may be removed by seizing it with a tena-culum or forceps, and excising it with fine-curvedscissors, or with a small scalpel, taking care not to F>g- 382. remove the conjunctiva, so that the cicatrix shallhold the ball to the inner canthus. § 9 — .^^ A front view of an Encanthus of Epicanthus—s~., upon, z«v>9oc, the angle of theeye—consists in the formation of a fold in the skinat the root of the nose, in consequence of which the ^ some sizetinternal canthus is, in a measure, concealed. It is arare complaint, and occasionally requires an operation in order to enablethe patient fully to expand the lids. The operation of Yon Ammon, ofDresden, consists in pinching up a longitudinal fold of the skin, excising itat the root of the nose of a sufficient width to efface the epicanthus, eitherwith the knife or scissors, and then uniting the elliptical wound thus madeby a hare-lip suture, Plate IX. Fig. 11. ^ 10.—Ankyloblepharon. Ankylohlepharon—ayxukrj, contraction, ,3}.e^apo^, the eyelid—is a disorderso named fr


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