Remarks on the purulent ophthalmy, which has lately been epidemical in this country / by 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 / by James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    soon as the rupture takes place, the violence of the pain, if this has been considerable, always subsides, and the discharge of puru- lent matter is usually diminished. The in- flammation that follows this period appears to me to be different from that which pre- ceded it, and to be now kept up, partly by the acrimonious secretion which issues from the ulcer, and partly by the unequal pres- sure which the protruded part conti- nually makes against the inner surface of the eyelid. . . k When both eyes are affected, the in- flammation usually begins in one of them several days before it shews itself in the other, its progress being in general much slower in the eye last affected than in the first. t In some of the cases where the most dangerous symptoms were subdued with- out doing essential injury to the sight,