Volume 4

A system of surgery / By Benjamin Bell.

  • Bell, Benjamin, 1749-1806.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A system of surgery / By Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    this fymptom; but thefe having already been fully mentioned in SeGtion II. of this Chapter, it is not neceflary to enumerate them again, In wounds of the eyeball, the ftrunG@ure of the parts renders it impoffible to dimi- nith the extent of the opening: The parts in this fituation cannot, as in the eyelids, be placed in contaé, and retained with futures: Nothing of. this kind being here admiffible, all that art can attempt, is, together with a ftrict antiphlogiftic regi- men, to keep the eye lightly covered with a pledget of any emollient ointment ; to bathe it from time to time with a weak folution of lead; and when the pain be- comes fevere, to give adequate dofes of opium. In extenfive wounds of the eye, attend- ed with an entire difcharge of its con- tents, permanent blindnefs, with the ufjal deformity induced by the finking of the eyeball, muft neceflarily fucceed ; but in wounds of leffer extent, we have it fre- quently