An address delivered before the Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, April 30, 1853.

  • Williams, Henry W. (Henry Willard), 1821-1895.
Date:
1853
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Credit: An address delivered before the Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, April 30, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    objects. On the other hand, the artificial habits of the rich, the vigils of the student, and the chlorosis of boarding schools are attended or followed by their own peculiar morbid conditions of the visual organ. In regard to nearly all these affections very much depends upon hygienic treatment; and this can only be directed by the ordinary medical attendant. Un- less he enjoins watchfulness, the purulent discharge from one eye may be conveyed to those of a whole family or an entire neighborhood. If he do not advise prudent exercise of the visual function, the student or the artizan may find himself deprived of that sense which has for him the highest value, on which, more than all others, depends the realization of his hopes. Another important inducement to the study of the affections of the eye, may be found in the aid they afford in illustrating the course of disease in other parts of the system. The physician has here an opportunity which he nowhere else enjoys, for familiarizing himself, by actual observation, with pathological phenomena, and noting the manner in which they are modified by remedies. The advan- tage he may derive from having the minutiae of morbid processes thus open to his inspection, should be esteemed too precious to be disregarded.