Table 2.

Management of oculoplastic conditions, including lacrimal fistula.

Year	Surgeon and disorder
1771	James Graham, an itinerant. Patient Daniel Turner of Newark acknowledged “the cure . . . of a fistula lacrymalis of my left eye . . .”83
1774	Samuel Clossey, in New York, lectured on anatomy relevant to lacrimal fistula
	Francis Mercier, an itinerant. “Undertakes to cure . . . Fistula Lacrimalis”84
1776	Frederick William Jericho, an itinerant. (Likely medical) remedy for “Fistula Lacrimalis.”86 Performed an enucleation (see text)
1783	“Samuel Prentice [Prentiss] . . . in . . . Worcester . . . Cutting for the Fistula Lachrymalis”99
1787	“Doctor Stoddard” resected an “atheroma,” possibly a dermoid cyst, in Hudson, New York100
1791	Peter Degravers. “. . . a safe operator for . . . Fistula lacrymalis”89
1795	John Warren lectured on surgery for lacrimal fistula in Cambridge