A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... To which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre, M.D.

  • Saunders, John Cunningham, 1773-1810.
Date:
1816
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Credit: A treatise on some practical points relating to the diseases of the eye / by the late John Cunningham Saunders ... To which are addded, a short account of the author's life, and his method of curing the congenital cataract, by ... J.R. Farre, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    states, passing through its several stages, without being able to trace any evidence of its contagious nature. Although this disease, even in its virulent form in the adult, be considered simply as the most acute inflammation of which the tunica conjunctiva is susceptible, yet, be¬ cause of its intensity, and of the facility with which the cornea is destroyed, or ma¬ terially impaired in its structure, at the points where the pressure of the inflamma¬ tion is chiefly sustained, blood-letting will not always succeed in arresting it previous to disorganization. But further, although prompt and free bleedings, by diminishing the force of the heart and arteries, be one of the most effectual checks on disorgani¬ zing inflammation; yet the most experi¬ enced practitioners will differ in opinion respecting the degree to which arterial action should be reduced in those who are acutely inflamed. There is a point of re¬ duction beyond which the further abstrac¬ tion of blood will protract the cure of the ophthalmia mucosa. This degree varies with the individual; but it may be esti-