Identities ascertained; or, an illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt: with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues.

Date:
1808
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Credit: Identities ascertained; or, an illustration of Mr. Ware's opinion respecting the sameness of infection in venereal gonorrhoea, and the ophthalmia of Egypt: with an examination of affinity between antient leprosy and lues. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 \ does not display itself more commonly in conjunction with gonorrhoea ? And in what manner shall it be accounted for in cases, where there has been no manifest exposure to the matter of ophthalmia, and where a suspicion of gonorrhoea could not enter into the mind ? « • Mr. Ware is of opinion, that in nume¬ rous instances of patients who have come under his care for purulent ophthalmy, he has been able to trace the existence of cor- / responding disease in the urethra, or va¬ gina ; and he has ascribed the infection of the eyes in such cases, to the accidental conveyance of matter from the other parts, by the finger, or other means. But if the communication of the disease, by such conveyance, could in any instance take place, it would inevitably be taking place so very often, that the ophthalmy could not have been considered as a new disease. It