10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCANTHIS»
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encanthis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye
Encanthis benigna has been distinguished from encanthis maligna ; the former, a
merely hypertrophied state of the parts, and probably of the conjunctiva more
than of the caruncula, the effect of simple inflammation, and disappearing under ...
2
A Dictionary of practical Surgery
The encanthis, at its commencement, is nothing more, says Scarpa, than a small,
soft, red, and sometimes rather livid, excrescence, which grows from the carun-
cula lachrymalis, and, at the same time, from the neighbouring semilunar fold of ...
3
A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye and Its Appendages: In ...
when this takes place, the disease, this simple enlargement constitutes, is termed
encanthis.* Chronic enlargement of the lachrymal caruncle is not attended by any
severe pain, and occasions no other defect than such as arises from ...
4
A Tratise on the Discases of the Eye and Its Appendages. - ...
But if it does not yield to these remedies, if it continues to increase, and if the "
The term encanthis has been applied to every variety of enlargement of the
semilunar membrane an lachrymal car-uncle; [Wsnzsn however, in his
Dictionnaire ...
5
Lectures on Operative Surgery of the Eye: Or, an Historical ...
When an encanthis of this description is to be removed, the eyelids should be
fully separated, and the head firmly secured by proper assistants ; the tumour
should then be raised by the forceps and cut off with the scissors, great care
being ...
George James Guthrie, 1830
6
The institutes and practice of surgery: being the outlines ...
Section VI. Encanthis. The encanthis, an elargement of the lacrymal caruncle and
semilunar fold, is a very uncommon, but sometimes most malignant disease. It
proceeds in some instances from obstinate and protracted ophthalmia ; at other ...
7
Hand-book of hygienic practice
ENCANTHIS.—Any morbid growth in the inner angle of the eye. Commonly
applied to a tumefaction or degeneration of the caruncula lachrymalis. It may
becured by repeated refrigerations or freezings, and attention to the general
health.
8
A Dictionary of Practical Surgery
The benign encanthis, how large soever it may be, is always curable by
extirpation. Those instances which are small, incipient, and granulated, like a
mulberry, orof a fringed structure, which originate either from the caruncula
laclirymalis, ...
Samuel COOPER (Senior Surgeon to University College Hospital.), 1845
9
The London Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
The inconveniences, necessarily result- in" from an encanthis, are considerable,
as chronic ophthalmy, an impediment to the complete closure of the eye, and an
interruption of the passage of the tears into the nose, by the compression and ...
10
A New Practice of Physic: Wherein the Various Diseases ...
3 j. pulv. myrrh. balsam. peruv. aa 3 si. m. Sometimes the lachrymal bag is
ulcerated, and upon daily pressing the nose, pus is forced out ; by which means
the operation may be deferred, and sometimes prevented. RHYAS and
ENCANTHIS.
Peter Shaw, T. and. T Longmn ((Londres)), 1753
