On acute ophthalmia, as it occurred in the left wing of H.M.'s 37th Regt. during 1851-52 / by J.W. Fleming.

  • Fleming, J. W.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On acute ophthalmia, as it occurred in the left wing of H.M.'s 37th Regt. during 1851-52 / by J.W. Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 do. Parade. 5 do. in Hospital. 1 do. on Orderly Room duty. 34 do. in their Barrack Rooms. 31 it first appeared in the Right eye. 40 do. do. Left eye. 5 do., do. Both eyes. j referring to the first Table we find the largest number of admissions occurred in April find June, after which there was a gradual decrease, and again an in- crease during the hot months of the year ; the fewest took plack in the three cool months of October, Novem- ber, and December * There has been no disposition on the part of the men to postpone the reporting of themselves when attacked by disease ; and the Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates have strict injunctions to report immediately any case of sickness or indisposition that may come to their knowledge. Close observation of the various cases enable me to state, with confidence, that I do not entertain the slightest suspicion of the complaint being- produced or aggravated by design. In the treatment of these cases my great object was speedily to reduce the local inflammation, at as little expense to the general strength as possible. To attain this, lowering, or antiphlogistic, measures were employed merely long enough to subdue the more acute symp- toms ; and instead of the “ application of a large number of Leeches round the orbit” a constant and regular drain upon the congested vessels, was maintained by the daily application of one, or two, seldom more than three, and * These two periods correspond with the setting in of the S. W. and N. E. monsoons, and are particularly inimical to health. During the former acute cases increase—gradually decline during the interval—and in October again increase till after December.
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