Report of the cases attended during the year 1837 / by R. Middlemore.

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[1838?]
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Credit: Report of the cases attended during the year 1837 / by R. Middlemore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contents became vastly increased, he suffered from dreadful hemicrania, from feverishness, and from general derangement of the health. At this time lie applied at the Town Infirmary, at which institution he was attended by Mr. Gem ; and when he called upon me after he had left the Infirmary, his eye was nearly as usual, except that the lids were slightly puffy and oedematous. The treatment employed by me during the time the patient was under my care, was founded on the supposition that he was suffering from chronic inflammation of the orbital cellular membrane, pro- ducing serous infiltration of that tissue. The illness for which he was attended by Mr. Gem did not appear to be connected with the state of the orbit. At one period of his illness, the severity of the pain, the increasing protrusion of the globe, the sense of tension of the eye-ball, and of stretching of the parts behind it, made it a matter of serious reflexion how far the patient was suffering from the development of a tumour within the orbit. Of course the symptoms were manifestly different from those proceeding from inflammat ion of the periosteal lining of the orbit. EMPLOYMENT OF VARIOUS REMEDIES FOR THE RELIEF OF AMAUROSIS. Veratrine and Aconitine Ointment.—These un- guents have been so much talked of, that I have thought it proper to give them a trial. I will briefly explain the results of their employment. In only one example of amaurosis, out of eight, subjected to the treatment, have I derived the slightest benefit, 8LV J 'Llu -v