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Description of a small muscle of the internal commissure of the eyelids.

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Philad. J. med. phys. Sci., 8, 70-80. 1824 CE.

Homer described the tensor tarsi (Horner’s) muscle, supplying the lacrimal apparatus. It was first described by Du Verney in 1749

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