Surgical essays / By Astley Cooper and Benjamin Travers.

  • Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841.
Date:
1818-1819
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Credit: Surgical essays / By Astley Cooper and Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON IRITIS. ration. The inflammation of the internal tunics continued unabated for two months, in spite of every palliative that could be used. Even opium, the refuge of the miserable under incurable dis- ease, failed, after a time, to mitigate her suffer- ings. The morbid action gradually spent itself, and the remnant of the eye has been tranquil for the last month. Is iritis an example of pure adhesive inflam- mation ?—I consider that it is; for if the case be left to nature, this is its tendency and ter- mination. Is the mercurial action an erythema or an adhesive inflammation of those parts on which it falls?—If the former, which I believe it to be, no two actions can be more opposed. Are sloughing ulcers cured or aggravated by the mercurial action in which the establishment of adhesive or phlegmonous inflammation is essential to the preservation of the part? Accept an example or two. Mr. B. was under mercu- rial action for a chancre on the glans penis ; an erythematous inflammation surrounded the ul- cer, and the part sloughed; contiguous portions of the glans died successively. As soon as this destructive inflammation was set up, the fur- ther use of mercury was suspended, and two ounces of'the powder of the best Peruvian bark was given daily. T? e granulating process was established before the whole of the glans was lost. You know that mercury would never have occasioned the deposition of lymph, nor the organization of that lymph, so as to heal by