Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents / [Alexander Turnbull].

  • Turnbull, Alexander, 1794 or 1795-1881.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Treatment of the diseases of the eye, by means of prussic acid vapour, and other medicinal agents / [Alexander Turnbull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    48 Extract from a letter of Professor Forbes, of King’s College, Aberdeen, Jan. 23rd, 1843 :— “ I seized the first hour which I could com¬ mand after receiving your note to call on Milne, that I might see in what state he was, as I had not heard of him for some time. I was also desirous of having the particulars of his case accurately from himself. *• “ John Milne was a cooper, and in that capa¬ city had gone with the whale-ships to Davis’s Straits and Greenland for sixteen years. “ In July, 1836, he was seized with a violent inflammation in one of his eyes, which soon extended to the other. After two years he became so blind that he could not walk with safety in the streets, and after meeting with a severe accident from his want of sight, he gave up attempting to walk out alone. “ He continued for more than two years in this state, always becoming worse and worse in his sight. His eye-balls were covered with ulcers; he suffered extreme pain, except when