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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    - tiated with human effluvia. In lying-in-hospitals, where the greatest attention is not paid to venti- lation, the disease is one of very frequent occur- rence ; want of cleanliness in removing sordes, or the use of dirty sponges to the face and eyes ; the negligent exposure of the head to cold, and . perhaps soon after to the heat and light of large fires. 3 One: Chronic inflammation of the glands of the eye- lids is liable in adults under the same or similar circumstances, such as damp and crowded dwel- lings and defective nourishment, to extend to the conjunctiva of the eye, producing there a purulent inflammation which may be called scrophulous, syphilitic, rheumatic, or arthritic, according as it may be allied to any of these affections. In such subjects it is, therefore common, to find purulent ophthalmia combined with inflammation of the eye itself, as we have described it under the head of sclerotic ophthalmia. As it would be useless to attempt to characterize such ophthal- mias from their local appearances, I* shall con- tent myself with referring for their treatment to the general principles already laid down, as far as regards the security of the eye, against the destructive effects of the disease; at the same time, that the general remedies must to a certain extent be regulated by the character of the con- stitutional affection. We must support relaxation 2L