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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whether the removal of the irritation which the operation effected might not have con- tributed as much to the amendment that followed, as the local remedies that were applied to the eyes. i CASE I. Mrs. — , thirty-two years of age, was attacked on the 22d of February, I807, with an inflammation of the right eye, which became more and more troublesome until the 27 th, when she consulted a sur- geon. At that time not only the tunica con- junctiva was much inflamed and tumefied, but there was a considerable accumulation of matter between the eye and the eyelid, which though often wiped away was rapidly renewed. She had been long subject to the fluor albus, and there were reasons for sup- posing that the acrimony of the discharge had been increased a short time before the eye became inflamed. Sixteen ounces of bIo<$l.