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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    in considering the operation of mercurials, we shall direct the attention of the profes¬ sion to a more efficient remedy. In whatever cases of ophthalmia venesec¬ tion be considered as essential to the cure, topical bleeding may justly be superadded as an auxiliary. We except, however, bleeding by scarification of the conjunc¬ tiva in every acute variety of ophthalmia. The Author’s reasoning on this point in the infant (page 45) is equally applicable to the adult. Exceptions to general and topical bleed¬ ings occur in the ophthalmia mucosa in its stage of passive congestion; but more es¬ pecially when sloughs, or sloughing ulcers of the cornea appear. The treatment under the latter circumstances is marked with great precision and judgment in chapters I. and IV. A doubt on this point may be resolved even by an indisposition to heal in other textures of the body. A child in whom one eye had been recently destroyed by in¬ flammation, applied with the conjunctiva of the other eye in a state of vascular con-