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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    [ 133 ] wherein will be feen the effects of a piece of fteel remaining in the aqueous humour, A few years fince, a young man came to me from the country, to have a fomething taken from his eye, which, he faid, flew into it a few days before, as he was hoeing turnips. The eye was very nightly inflam- ed, and on one iide of the lower part of the cornea was seen, what appeared to me a piece of iron, a good deal larger than is usually found in fimilar cases; the cornea was completely healed ovet it, and as he did not complain of pain, I declined attempting to extract it; gave him a mild lotion, and, desired him to eome again in a week. It was nearly a month before I faw him, when the inflammation of the eye was nearly the fame as on my first feeing him, at times giving him a little uncasinefs; or if he looked at any thing earnestly, tiie eye in a fhort time was filled with Water: I now found the extraneous fubstanee, which