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iubfequent Weeping : For by filling the Wound with 
fmall Pledgets, and putting a Tent into the Hole 
that was made, the Orifice of the little common 
Canal, that ferves to convey the Tears into the 
Duffus lacrymalis , luffers a Compreflure, and is 
render’d hard, thick and callous ; whereby, as its 
Diameter is very fmatl, it is eafiiy flopp’d up. The 
Contufion made on this little Orifice, and round a- 
bout it, brings on a Suppuration j after which the 
Parts coalefce, and the Orifice of this fmall Canal 
clofes up. The Tus or Sanies , that in the Courfe 
of the Diftemper flow’d back both through the com- 
mon Canal, and the fmall Canals, which are a Con- 
tinuation of the Tunffa lacrymalia , has fometimes 
eccafion’d Excoriations ; in confequence of which 
happens a Regeneration of Flefh during the Drefl 
fings, a fmall matter whereof is fufficient to flop up 
fuch flender Duds. In fine, thole finall Canals,- 
through which nothing pafles for a Month or two, 
that the Dreflings laft, cither clofe by their proper 
Springinefs, or their Diameters are leilen’d by their 
fmall Vefiels becoming varicous. ’Tis certain, that 
Injedions are fometimes made through the Tuntta 
lacrymalia j but the propelling Force of thefe In- 
jedions overcomes thofe Refiftances, which the 
Caule that naturally drives theTears into the ‘VunEia 
lacrymalia , is not in a Condition to get the bet- 
ter of. 
Thus it appears from the Detail of the Accidents 
I have enumerated, and which generally happen, 
more or lefs, that while the Artift is endeavouring 
to preferve a clear Paflage for the Tears into the 
Nofe, he labours, without defigning it, to flop the 
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