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DISTICHIASIS

Volume 7 · 59 words · 1815 Edition

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