Abstract

This small lid everter is the outcome of an endeavor to find an instrument that would give a large exposure of the entire upper lid and culdesac. Its most salient features are simplicity of design, ease of manipulation, and freedom from causing pain in introduction. It has been the means of revealing several cases of trachoma that had been overlooked by ordinary methods. In introducing the instrument, it is grasped at its distal end between the tips of the thumb and index finger. With the patient looking down, the lashes of the upper lid are held in the tips of the thumb and index finger of the left hand. The knobbed ends of the instrument are then placed gently on the upper lid about one-half inch from the ciliary margin with the instrument in the vertical position. With the fingers of the left hand holding the lashes, the lid is

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