Practical remarks / by Thomas O'Halloran.

  • O'Halloran, Thomas.
Date:
1824
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    their dismissal from hospital, when the con- valescents were exposed to the operation of causes which existed at the out-post guards, where the state of the atmosphere was different from that of the town or south barracks. The preventive measures against relapse, Consist in the occasional application of blue- stone to the eye-lids during the period of con- valescence ; and, for this purpose, it would be desirable to confine the convalescents to a sepa- rate barrack-room, where, when off duty, the eyes may be examined with the view of maintaining an excitement in the eye-lids, when a disposi- tion to relapse manifests itself. I am thoroughly convinced, that by this means I have restored to effective service a number of persons who might have been disabled for months ; and I am moreover persuaded, that in cases, in which organic lesion has been produced by chronic disease, the injury may be repaired in a much shorter time in barracks than in hospital; for it is presumable, and I am convinced that it is the fact, that an ophthalmic air (if I may use the expression) exists in ophthalmic hospitals, very unfavourable to the re-establishment of health, and highly prejudicial to the chronic state. It is astonishing how quickly the state of the eye-lids, denominated granular, is removed by the bluestone, if the subject be not of scro- d3