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| First separate edition. Doctoral thesis. On lacrimal drainage capacity. Originally published in Zeitschrift für Augenheilkunde, vol. 36. "Tear flow is caused by forces that are not completely understood. Various mechanisms have therefore been proposed to explain the drainage of tears. An active mechanism has been recognized as an essential factor in lacrimal drainage since the observation of epiphora in cases of facial palsy. This mechanism was investigated by Frieberg and Rosengren who found evidence for a canalicular pump"(Friedrich P. Paulsen1, Andreas B. Thale, Uta J. Hallmann, and others, The Cavernous Body of the Human Efferent Tear Ducts: Function in Tear Outflow Mechanism, in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 2000;41:965-970). |