Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale.

  • Assalini, Paolo.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ters of our workmen and soldiers were not at all secured from the cold air and the damp, which penetrated into their chambers with as much facility during the night as the heat and excessive light en- tered them during the day: these incon- veniences were the principal causes which occasioned the ophthalmy to show itself more at Giseh than elsewhere. To these common causes may be added those which are peculiar to blacksmiths, founders, tin- men, locksmiths, armourers, farriers, ba- kers, &c. who, from their employments, are exposed to the heat and light of burn- ing coals: in spite of which, during the six months that I had the chief charge of this service, I had the satisfaction of seeing all those affected recover, and in a very short time. Of two thousand attacked with the ophthalmy, whom I attended in Egypt, not one lost his sight, excepting the Abbe Elias, interpreter, a man sixty years of age, and who at last contracted a speck, which prevented him from seeing with the left eye. In the treatment of this disorder, I re-