The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . nflammation with frequent ulcerationof the cornea. 1462. Caiise§. It generally results from the contractionof parts which have been wounded and are beginning to heal, asin burns, scalds or cuts. It may be caused by paralysis of the DISKASER OK THE EYK. iJ ^ f^ muscle which surrounils the eye. Not long since I had occasionto o])er:ite upon a case in which eversion of the lids was causedby contraction of a wound in healing. A distinguished surgeonof New York had removed a tumor from the cheek of thepatient, and
The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified . nflammation with frequent ulcerationof the cornea. 1462. Caiise§. It generally results from the contractionof parts which have been wounded and are beginning to heal, asin burns, scalds or cuts. It may be caused by paralysis of the DISKASER OK THE EYK. iJ ^ f^ muscle which surrounils the eye. Not long since I had occasionto o])er:ite upon a case in which eversion of the lids was causedby contraction of a wound in healing. A distinguished surgeonof New York had removed a tumor from the cheek of thepatient, and in healing, the skin had contracted so much as toresult in eversion of the lower lid. Treatment. If paralysis be the cause of this affec-tion, appropriate constitutional treatment is advised. If causedby contraction of wounds or burns, a surgical operation is theoidy remedy. The operation consists in removing a part of thetissue, as shown by the black lines in Fig. UiT, which representsthe incisions as made in operating, and bringing the edges of the J^irj. 167. FUf,
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