Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye. With methods of cure. Considerably different from those commonly used, and cases annexed, in proof of their utility / by James Ware.

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye. With methods of cure. Considerably different from those commonly used, and cases annexed, in proof of their utility / by James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS, &c. INTRODUCTION. MONO the various diforders to jlJL which the human body is liable, inflammation feems to be one of the mod confiderable; as is apparent from obferv- ing the immediate and diredt influence which it has, in preventing or obftrudting the neceiTary adtion of the parts affedted by it: and in no cafe is this more evi¬ dent than in the Ophthalmy, or Inflam¬ mation of the eyes; which, in every de¬ gree of it, is found, in fome meafure, to impair the fight; and, in not a few in- ftances, has rifen to fuch a height, as en¬ tirely to deftroy it. My defign in the following pages is— firft, to lay before the reader fome obfer- vations on this complaint-then to treat B of