A copy of the appendix and notes, annexed to the third edition of Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / By James Ware.

  • James Ware
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1795
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Credit: A copy of the appendix and notes, annexed to the third edition of Remarks on the ophthalmy, psorophthalmy, and purulent eye / By James Ware. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dl rather as exceptions to the ufual flate of this diforder, than as examples of it0 Note 18, Page 124. On the fmall change fometimes made by the P/o- rophtbalmy in the appearance of the parts affected by it. Although the Pforophthalmy, agreeably to the remark above made, is not unfrequently accompanied with a greater or lefs degree of inflammation on the globe of the eye, and in fuch cafes appears to be the primary caufe of the Oph- thalmy, yet inflances continually occur in which this difor¬ der exifts without producing the flighted: appearance of in¬ flammation whatfoever. I have attended a very confi- derable number of thefe ; and in many, the only intimation of the nature of the complaint has been derived from the defcription given by the patients themfelves. Whenever I am informed that the edges of the eyelids have a difpofition, be it ever fo flight, to adhere to each other after they have been long in contadf, as during the time of fleep, and when this is accompanied with an uncomfortable fenfe of weight in the lids on the approach of night, inconfequence whereof' the patient iuvoluntary flints them, without being drowfy, and without any particular flimulus being applied to the eye to give it pain, I always fufpect that the fecretion from the ciliary glands is in a difeafed flate ; and in many fuch cafes I have found the fuccefsattending; the ufe of the means, above recommended for the cure of the Pforophthalmy, to be quite as effedhial, as in thofe other inflances where the excoriation and rednefs of the eyelids have been viable on the flighted mfpe&ion* It
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