A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch].

  • Vetch, John, 1783-1835
Date:
1820
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye / [John Vetch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it may be necessary to observe, that it is used to signify two very different affections, which seldom occur in the same individual. — Ree: Between acute rheumatism, as it has been called, or that painful inflammation. which seizes on the articulations, and has its prin- cipal seat in the synovial membranes, and that painful affection of the muscles called . chronic rheumatism, there are no other points of resemblance, than that they both originate from the action of cold, or cold and moisture. Both are remarkable for the suddenness with which they shift from one part to another, and: both tend to diminish locomotive power ; the one by affecting the joints, the other by di- minishing the power of the muscles by which the jomts are moved. ‘They are not only dis- tinguished by this difference of scite, but are different in all their relations; the one is liable to produce permanent thickening, or en- largement of the seat of its attack; the other is followed by a wasting of the part affected. Each of these. two diseases, though confined, and that often through the whole course of a long life: to ‘its respective structure, occasion- ally attacks the organs essential to life itself. It is, however, seldom that those who are martyrs to what is called. chronic rheuma- tism, that is, a disease partly inflammatory,