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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![[8 ] peculiar want of action in the part, or from the inflammation being occasionally in- creased, by want of attention to remove any exciting causes, or the use of impro- per applications, the eye will become fo accustomed to its new motions, that the inflammation may be continued for a great length of time, without occasioning any opacity of the cornea, or being produc- tive of much pain, and has generally been called the atonic or pafsive inflammation. But when the inflammation has continu- ed with violence for fome time, the vefsels afsume various kinds of diseased actions, producing different effects on the eye. Hence when the irritation and pain have been great, the arteries are thrown into that kind of action, by which they secrete pus, which is deposited in different parts of the eye. As it is only the minute extremities of the vefsels, that have this fecreting power, and those on the conjunctiva, from the loosenefs of the cellular membrane](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21439205_0001_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
