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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    animadverfions, whole practice was confined to the Bay of Aboukir, and who feems not to have known that either fetons or iflues werein- admiflible in Egypt from the general putrefcent tendency prevalent in that climate, and that even blifiers were generally followed by te¬ dious and alarming confequences, if not pro¬ perly timed and attended to*. Neither did thofe remedies, after fix months attentive obfervation in Gibraltar, afford any proof fufliciently ob¬ vious to eflablifh their efficacy in removing the inveterate Ophthalmia of Egypt. With refpeft to the plan of cure adopted in our Hofpitals, I have to obferve, that as the patients feldom applied for medical aid previous to the acceffion of the high inflammatory flage of Ophthalmia, the antiphlogiflic mode of cure was of courfe chiefly reforted to. General as well as topical blood-letting, and purgative me¬ dicines were adminiflered, but feldom to that extent which the fame circumflances would have warranted in thefe climates. A variety of Cold applications, and fre¬ quently under the fame circumflances warm fo¬ mentations