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XIII. A new Method of treating the Fiftula Lachrymalis, 
By Mr. William Blizard, Surgeon, F.A.S.; commu- 
nicated by Mr. Jofeph Warner, Surgeon , F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 24, 1780. 
) 
TN every period of the difeafe, termed fijlula lachrymalis , 
there is underftood to exift a degree of obftrudtion 
in the nafal du6l; fo that more or lefs of the tears, mixed 
with the oily fecretion of the febaceous glands of the 
eye-lids, and mucus of the internal furface of the lachry- 
mal fac, being prevented from palling into the nofe, are 
expelled through the lachrymal pundta upon the furface 
of the eye, and down the cheek. 
Writers on furgery divide this difeafe into feveral 
ftages ; the firft and moll; Ample being that of obftruc- 
tion, with little or no inflammation ; and fo on, accord- 
ing to the degree or effeit of inflammation, to the lalt 
ftage, a floughy, ulcerated condition of the fac and its 
integuments, with, now and then, a caries of the bony 
parts. 
Though 
