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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    returned, he was in a few days perfectly re¬ covered. A bad diarrhoea, with which he had been a long time troubled, was materially checked, and having got frequent intervals of ileep, to which he had been a long time unaccuf- tomed, he was foon relfored to perfect health and ftrength. It is needlefs to fay how eager we felt to communicate to our patients the ad¬ vantages we had derived from this excellent medicine, and how happy we were to find it uniformly beneficial. The opium was adminif- tered according to the plan of cure hereafter laid down, and it is a fa£t no lefs furprifing than true, that in the fpace of a month from the adoption of this remedy, we were enabled to reltore to the Army almoll every Ophthal¬ mic patient, in a Hate either of convalefcence or of perfect health. * From the admirable effects derived from Opium in this difeafe as well as in others de¬ pending on debility; and from the ftriking peculiarities obfervable in the animal and vege¬ table * One patient, a private of the 18th Regiment of foot, died of the Hectic Fever already deferibed.