Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch].

  • Vetch, John, 1783-1835.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations relative to the treatment by Sir William Adams, of the ophthalmic cases of the Army / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but that my success was both understood and appreciated,* If it be objected to these early operations that the scissors were used instead of the knife, I beg* to say, that both these instruments had been repeatedly employed; and I do not scruple to assert, that where the operation is required, the scissors are the better instrument of the two; that the surface which follows excision by them is less irritable, and less disposed to a repro¬ duction of fungus; that there is also less risque of wounding the semilunar cartilage of the pah pebrse, an accident very likely to occur in the mode of operating performed by Sir W m. Adams, and which I apprehend to have happened in some cases where the operation has led to^ a ter¬ mination fatal to the organ. The cure of this granulated surface of the palpebrae, by means of excision, is mentioned by Hippocrates; and the disease under the names of Sycosis and Scabies Palpebrarum, is distinctly described by the succeeding authors of the Greek and Latin schools; and the cure as * The change in the direction of the Army Medical Department subsequent to the Walcheren expedition, will explain the wa»t ©f support which my services would otherwise have received.