Volume 1
A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second].
- Noble, Edward Moore
- Date:
- 1800-1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on opthalmy : and those diseases which are induced by inflammations of the eyes : with new methods of cure / by Edward Moore Noble. Part the first[-second]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![[ 39 ] and cold, moisture and drynefs, &c. which, may bring the body into fuch a lliate as to make it much more fusceptible of taking on diseased action, from any irregularity in the application of the usual fiimuli in- ducing inflammation, I have no objection to the term ; but if, by it, we are to under- stand that, at times it is probable the air may contain certain opthalmic particles, if I may be allowed the exprefsion, which, when applied to the body, will produce a fpecific disease, as variolous effluvia causes fmallpox, I must confefs it appears to me highly improbable. Inflammations of the eyes fometimes come on very fuddenly, and apparently without any fufficient preceding cause; this, by the common people, is called a blast, and has by them been referred to fomething noxious in the air, and connected confusedly, in their minds, with what they have observ- ed to happen to trees. It is, likewise, no unusual thing to fee feveral people in one](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439205_0001_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
