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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    portion ot the contents of a common scrofulous ab- scess. This matter may be pealed and pulled away by the forceps. One or two similar tumours have just appeared at other parts of the surface of the eye, but they are extremely minute. The general aspect of the eye is dreadful, and would formerly have been considered to furnish a decided example of malignant disease, and would doubtless have been removed by a surgical operation. In the progress of this case, the details of which it is not necessary to furnish, the resemblance to malignant disease was so great, that several medical friends to whom I shewed the case had very little doubt upon the point. My own opinion, however, was, that the disease constituted a very rare form of ophthalmic disease, namely, chronic deposition of curdy, scrofulous matter within the eye-ball and beneath the conjunctiva; this deposition being rather more solid and tenacious than that usually resulting from strumous action. In this opinion my excellent friend Dr. Julius Staberoh* agreed Treatment.—A grain of disulphate of quiua to be taken three times a day, and every evening one grain of blue pill and three of the extract of conium. Local Treatment.—Flannels wetted with the fol- lowing lotion to be frequently applied in a warm state to the eye :—R Extracti belladonna 3j., extracti hyoscyami Bij., decocti papaveris §vss., vini opii |ss. m. ; and whenever the pain was more than * This enthusiastic student of our interesting profession has now returned to Germany, and promises to confer honour on the country and the profession to which he belongs.