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DISTICHIASIS

Volume 4 · 59 words · 1778 Edition

in surgery, a disease of the eyelids, when under the ordinary eye-lashes there grows another extraordinary row of hair, which frequently eradicates the former, and, pricking the membrane of the eye, excites pain, and brings on a delusion.β€”It is cured by pulling out the second row of hairs with nippers, and cauterizing the pores out of which they issued.