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down and inward. Suffering is pronounced. May- 

 have an accompanying conjunctivitis, chemosis, etc. 

 Sometimes confounded with periostitis. May have 

 suppuration. Generally of traumatic origin. 



Treatment — If early, ice may abort. So soon, how- 

 ever, as there is suppuration, aid the formation with 

 heat. Free incisions through the conjunctiva. 



Dislocation of the gland has been seen and hyper- 

 tropliij of the gland is exceedingly rare. This struc- 

 ture may be the seat of new growths, as glandular 

 structures, in other parts of the bodj'^, and should be 

 treated as elsewhere, i. e., extirpation of entire gland. 



