The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . Method of Operating for Canthoplasty. by applying strips of adhesive plaster, to drawthe lashes away from the eyeball. If these pro-cedures fail, it must be treated like the cicatri-cial variety—by operative measures. 120 COMMONER DISEASES OF THE EVE A simple operation called canthoplasty maybe performed either alone or as an adjunct toother surgical measures. The external com-. Sutures in Canthoplasty. missure is cut through in a horizontal line anddirectly outwards with a pair of straight scis-sors. The sharp-pointed bl
The commoner diseases of the eye : how to detect and how to treat them . Method of Operating for Canthoplasty. by applying strips of adhesive plaster, to drawthe lashes away from the eyeball. If these pro-cedures fail, it must be treated like the cicatri-cial variety—by operative measures. 120 COMMONER DISEASES OF THE EVE A simple operation called canthoplasty maybe performed either alone or as an adjunct toother surgical measures. The external com-. Sutures in Canthoplasty. missure is cut through in a horizontal line anddirectly outwards with a pair of straight scis-sors. The sharp-pointed blade of the latter isentered beneath the lids at the outer canthus,and the skin wound made a few millimeterslonger than thai in the mucous membrane. Apreparatory subcutaneous injection of a few-drops of cocain (4 per cent solution) will ren-der this a comparatively painless conjunctival edges are now separi COMMONER DISEASES OF THE EYELIDS 121 from the underlying tissues, and with threestitches are evenly joined to the margin of theskin wound. An antiseptic lotion, and the re-moval of the stitches, in from four days to aweek, complete the case. PEpilation Forceps. If tne entropion he well marked, an efficientoperation constitutes the best means of remedy-ing all the evils attendant upon that condition,but in many cases it will suffice to do a cantho-plasty and destroy a few troublesome cilia. Donot, however, temporize by pulling
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