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
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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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    [ 131 ] It might, probably, be fupposed, that were the particle of metal to gain admifsion into the anterior chamber, the inflammation produced would be fo great as to cause a fuppuration of the internal parts of the eye, and an evacuation of the humours, and that every method ought to be tried to extract the particle in the first instance. It has already been ftiewn, in fpeaking of the effects of blows, that the chrystalline lens has been confined in the anterior cham- ber for years, without producing much pain, and a justly celebrated lecturer, of London, informed me, that once, in making the fec- tion of the cornea, to extract a cataract, the point of the knife broke, and he believes remained in the eye, though the patient recovered without any unfavourable fymp- tom. The point of the instrument, how- ever, might never have been in the eye ; or it might fpeedily have been washed away by the flowing of the aqueous humour; I will therefore relate a case, exactly in point,