Attempt to investigate the cause of the Egyptian ophthalmia, with observations on its nature and different modes of cure / By George Power.

  • Power, George.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Attempt to investigate the cause of the Egyptian ophthalmia, with observations on its nature and different modes of cure / By George Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5^ fpirit. 1'his remedy, M. Sevarefi fays, has af¬ forded the utmoft relief, and has cured the dif- eafe radically in twenty days or a month. To cure the third fpecies of Ophthalmic In¬ flammation, (by which I fuppofe he means afihenic affe&ing the Tunica- Conjundliva), that is more fimple but obflinate like the pre¬ ceding, he ufed another collyrium compofed of common fait diffolved in vinegar and water, and adds, that many praife the application of emol¬ lient and refolving cataplafms in all the three fpecies; but that obfervation had taught him that this remedy is hurtful, fince it relaxes the part, encreafes pain, and produces other evils. And he concludes with obferving, that by this curative method, out of a thoufand pa¬ tients who were affe&ed with the diforder, and committed to his care, he had the mortification to fee two entirely lofe their fight, and fome others the fight of one Eye. Dodtor Whyte, conceiving this difeafe to arife either from a dilatation of the humours of the eye by folar heat, or an inflammation of th® Tunicks, or both combined ; and confidering M.v Sav-v