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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![[ 91 ] When the inflammation is only feveral days in fubsiding, after the removal of the exciting cause, as it is continued by the pain which arises from the enlarged diameters of the vefsels, and the fubsequent force of the contractions, on the pain remitting, the in- flammation diminishes, and the action of the vefsels partially return to their ordinary Hate, and, after a few remifsions and exa- cerbations, health is restored. That the enlargement of the vefsels, in what is called active inflammation, depends on the resistance from the irritable principle resident in the arterial fibres being overcome by the impetus of the blood, appears from the experiments of Dr. Buvina, who found that, on injecting fresh blood into the blood- vefsels of living animals, the blood only^ penetrated into those vefsels in which red blood circulates during life, but having fud- denly killed the animal, by dividing the fpinal marrow,, the injections immediately penetrated to the most delicate vefsels of G /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439205_0001_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
