Remarks on the purulent ophthalmy, which has lately been epidemical in this country / [James Ware].

  • Ware, James, 1756-1815
Date:
1808
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Credit: Remarks on the purulent ophthalmy, which has lately been epidemical in this country / [James Ware]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    companied with a distressing pain either in the whole or some particular part of the head. The pain is not in proportion to the quantity of discharge; since, when the latter has been profuse I have, in some instances, observed that the former has been far from considerable. Sometimes the cornea speedily becomes opaque, the opacity first appearing round the circumference of this tunic, where it unites with the tunica conjunctiva. Very soon after the opacity is perceived, if the violence of the inflammation con- tinue, a rupture of the cornea takes place, of which the patient is made sensible bv a sudden gush of the aqueous humour. According to the part of the cornea in which the rupture happens, the pupil is more or less involved, and of course the future vision is more or less injured. ] have seen in this disease the whole of the cornea slough, and come away within a