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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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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    J 34S ] observed. The fwelling of the lids being the uniform effect of the pustules, cannot be abated, but by the natural course of the disease, and what we ought to attempt is, that the eyes fliould be irritated as little as pofsible, and the confinement of the tears prevented. The lids (hould be touched with the greatest gentlenefs, any matter that collects, removed with a little warm water, and the edges of the lids kept very moist by the application of fome mild ointment. The lids fhould never be free from the ointment, that it may prevent the confine- ment of the acrid tears, which is generally the cause of the fucceeding inflammation: besides, if they are kept constantly moist, there will be no danger offtrabismns^ which fometimcs is brought on, by the eye-lids being partially opened, on the the decline of the disease, and the patient endeavour- ing Iq fee. tkpygh the imall part- which admits lig-fit.