Observations and cases relating to the operation for artificial pupil; in a letter from Mr. Maunoir of Geneva, to Professor Scarpa of Pavia, with the professor's answer / communicated by Dr. Marcet.

  • Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822.
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[1816]
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    [ ^2 ] On examining the inflamed eyes of tho i who have figns of fcrophula, as fair fkir. fwelled over-lips, and fome of the glan i of the neck enlarged, there is feldom ! general increase of action of the vefsels I the conjunctiva: there are vefsels to f feen larger than natural over the whcl furface, but the white colour of the tun ^ albuginea, is visible between them, nea of its usual appearance; much light gi pain, causing a plentiful effusion of tea : and when the disease has continued fo j. time, the ciliary edges of the eye-lids : often affected; fome of the hairs come ( and the fmall febaceous glands, ghfidiih Meihomii, are inflamed, and at tir ulcerated, causing the Psoropthalmy of Ware. It has been fupposed that these glands are diseased on account of that t( dency of enlargement, and inflammatioi the glands in fcrophiila \ but I think it n be better accounted for, from the great ii