Practical remarks. Part I. On acute and chronic ophthalmia, ulcers of the eye &c. &c. Part II. On remittent fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O'Halloran.

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1824
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    sihuatiiig itself into the surrounding parts, but to produce, in many instances, a defect in vision, by the quantity of serum effused into the ante- rior and posterior chambers of the eye. VARIETY III. The two preceding conditions of ophthalmia are by many considered as simple. The form now under consideration (viz. the purulent) comparatively complex. This form of disease, if we permit ourselves to judge by external appearances, is of a more serious nature than the second, but it is doubtful that it is so in reality ; for, of the numerous cases of different varieties which came under my observation, those which assumed the purulent mode of action yielded to remedy, as soon, and as cer- tainly, as the complicated cases of the other varieties. In this form also the attack is sudden, not announced by premonitory symptoms ; when they do exist, they consist, as in the other form, in a sensation of stiffness or heaviness about the orbits—an inability to move the eye with the accustomed freedom. The eye becomes itchy ; and the patient cannot be persuaded but that sand or dirt, as he expresses it, is lodged between the eyelid and ball of the eye. He endeavours to remove the disagreeable sensation by rubbing; which, not producing the expected relief, is immediately succeeded by obtuse pain, augment-