Medical report of the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary, No. 12, Queen Street, for 1850 / by Robert Hamilton and Benjamin Bell.

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1851?]
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Credit: Medical report of the Edinburgh Eye Infirmary, No. 12, Queen Street, for 1850 / by Robert Hamilton and Benjamin Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cated, was precisely that required for articular rheumatism or rheumatic fever. This was vigorously adopted, and with speedy and most marked relief. The prin¬ ciple we are now contending for has long been familiar to every one, as it regards strumous ophthalmia ; in many varieties of which it would scarcely be too much to affirm, that nine-tenths of the treatments must consist of constitutional reme¬ dies—correcting the diathesis—and the remaining tenth of local: And the gist of our thesis is this, that a principle somewhat similar, a similar enlargement of view, with corresponding practice, at once varied and specific, is required in a vast number, we would say the majority, of ophthalmic disorders. In a word, all judicious and efficient practice should be based alike on an intimate acquaint¬ ance with physiology, pathology, and therapeutics ; and unceasing attention should be directed to the digestive organs which supply the nourishment to the frame,—to the respiratory, which renovate the vital fluids,—to the circulatory sys¬ tem, which distributes these,—and last, though not least, to the excretory organs which maintain the purity and salubrity of the whole. g MURRAV AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH,
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